George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

I am sorry, Senator Whish-Wilson, but you do betray a certain ignorance of the modelling. Might I remind you, in relation to rice, that rice has never been admitted to the Chinese market. There has never been an FTA agreed to by China which has included rice. In relation to sugar, Australia already has very, very good access to the Chinese market for sugar. We export 100,000 tonnes of sugar into the Chinese market already on the most favourable terms that are allowed to any sugar exporter under WTO rules. In relation to wheat, the tariff on Australian wheat going into China is only one per cent. (Time expired)