Official figures show that more than 25% of Australian beef exports in April went to China. In total, Australian packers shipped 23,788 tonnes of beef to China in the course of April, an increase of 15% year on year.

However, during May, trade tensions between Australia and China have built up following following a call from Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, for an independent international inquiry into the origin of the covid-19 pandemic, and beef has suffered.

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