Chinese deserve to enjoy ‘surf and turf’: Australian trade minister

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Senator Farrell pressed Mr Wang to lift the tariffs, saying Chinese consumers deserved to be able to try surf and turf. “We do have these last two issues, but I remain confident that, based on my conversations, that they will be removed,” he said. He said they were different to the other sanctions. Biosecurity issues “Unlike the barley issue and the wine issue, which were both tariff-related issues where we agreed to suspend our World Trade Organisation applications in exchange for China reconsidering its tariff arrangement, the issues in respect to lobster and to beef are biosecurity issues,” he said....