Barley is not a random choice – here's the real reason China is taking on Australia over dumping
- Written by Weihuan Zhou, Senior Lecturer and member of Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, UNSW
This week China launched its first ever anti-dumping investigation against Australia, targeting barley exports.
Australia’s barley industry is upset because it doesn’t believe it has been dumping.
But that isn’t the point. China’s...