As tension grows over Beijing's massive tariffs on Australian wine, the Federal Government is continuing with plans to take China to the World Trade Organization over barley exports.
In May, China began threatening to slap the tariffs on the barley industry, as a result of "an ongoing anti-dumping and countervailing duties investigation".
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has detailed appeals the Government has made through China's domestic processes to overturn the decision and limit the impact on the $1.5 billion barley trade with China.
"We sought to engage in good faith," Senator Birmingham told the Insiders program this morning.
"We are disappointed that all the evidence, as compelling as we are confident it is, was rejected by the Chinese authorities and that appeal was unsuccessful."
Senator Birmingham said the World Trade Organization appeal was the next step.
"I expect that will be the outcome," he said.
The industry itself is split over whether the escalation of the trade conflict is the right course of action.
"There are different opinions, to be quite frank there," Senator Birmingham said.
"But on the whole Australia stands by the rules-based system for international trade and if you stand by the rules-based system, you should also use that rules-based system, which includes calling out where you think the rules have been broken and calling in the international umpire to help resolve those disputes."
More to come.
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