And when that failed to produce the required result, CCP media outlets recently announced seven more categories would be added: timber, sugar, copper ore and copper concentrates, wool, lobster, barley and wine. These bans were to be effective Friday last week. This news was widely reported in Australia. The potential loss to Australia is estimated at $5 billion or so.
Note three important subtleties. First, observant readers will have noticed that two of the industries on the latest list were cited earlier – wine and barley. So there’s some double-counting and repetition in the lists.
