Trade frictions not a major risk to economy

China announced this week that its anti-dumping investigation into Australian barley imports will drag on longer than planned, fuelling tensions between the two countries further. While China’s small reliance on coal imports means it could tighten earlier restrictions on coal imports a bit more, we suspect it will refrain from restraining key iron ore and LNG exports.

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