After Beijing’s recent lifting of crippling wine tariffs that had been in effect since early in the pandemic, Chinese customers will need to be convinced to buy new stocks of Australian wine.
Backlash against China wine tariffs hits local players
A list of 41 Australian wineries supposedly âChinese-ownedâ sparked a torrent of racist emails and cancelled orders for a group already suffering from tariffs and lockdowns.
Seville Winery chief winemaker Dylan McMahon say owner Wang Yiping has invested in and grown the business.Â
Eamon Gallagher
May 28, 2021 â 10.14am
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The abusive emails and phone calls began almost immediately. It was December last year and a list of 41 vineyards owned by âChinese firmsâ had been posted online, in what supporters saw as retaliation for Beijing slugging tariffs as high as 218 per cent on Australian wine.
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China has boldly gloated that Australian wine exports will plummet under new tariffs - wiping millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs from the industry - while claiming the only reason they bought our bottles was because they were cheap .
The claim was made in a piece by the Global Times, a mouthpiece for the communist government, after China imposed additional 6.3 per cent duties on Australian wine from Friday.
The Beijing-sponsored newspaper said the only reason Chinese consumers bought Australian wine was because it s cheap , and would now look to buy wine from other countries such as Chile.
The article, which was published on Thursday, claims the new trade tariffs could cause a wine and grape glut in Australia when demand from Chinese importers drops .