"Australia is now the lone supplier of high-quality white fat marbled beef into China,"he said.
"In the short term this trade war might present opportunities for Australian beef exports, but the bigger picture here is, if this tariff war slows growth in both the US and China, then demand for a lot of the things we sell overseas would slow."
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