The agreement between Australia and China to resolve their barley dispute without World Trade Organization adjudication is evidence that relations have improved. It raises confidence Australia can maintain a constructive relationship with China, even as U.S.-China relations continue to deteriorate. China imposed an 80.5 per cent import tariff on Australian barley in May 2020, on
Comment: Australia-China barley solution shows diplomacy does work
Australia’s WTO case has been suspended with the promise of a Chinese tariff review
Comment: WTO steps back from the brink
But repairing long-standing problems still requires solid efforts
After decades of conflict that has neutered its work, the World Trade Organization looks to be back in business. Its highest decision-making body – a conference of ministers from the organization’s 164 member nations – has just met for the first time since 2017. None of what the ministerial conference (dubbed MC12 due to being
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