Australian beef exports to China can resume after trade war suspension, minister says

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Five major Australian beef exporters suspended from exporting meat to China can now resume, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has confirmed. Senator Watt told ABC News Breakfast the suspensions were lifted by Beijing on Wednesday night with immediate effect. "We had already seen a couple of other processing operations have their trade bans lifted, but now [it's] another five," Senator Watt said. "That is fantastic news for the cattle producers, for the meat processing industry and for the workers in those industries." The meatworks that were suspended are in Queensland and New South Wales and had been trading about $1 billion...