{"id":389811,"date":"2020-12-16T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T06:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389811"},"modified":"2020-12-16T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T07:39:39","slug":"australian-prime-minister-says-chinas-coal-ban-would-breach-wto-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/australian-prime-minister-says-chinas-coal-ban-would-breach-wto-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Prime Minister says China\u2019s coal ban would breach WTO rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Prime Minister said Tuesday that China would be in breach of World Trade Organization rules as well as a bilateral free trade agreement if it banned Australian coal. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Scott Morrison was responding to a report in the Chinese state-owned Global Times newspaper that the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission had given power plants approval to import coal without restrictions except for Australian coal. <\/p>\n<p>Morrison said he was treating the report as \u201cmedia speculation\u201d because the Chinese government had yet to clarify its position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that were the case, then that would obviously be in breach of WTO rules,\u201d Morrison told reporters. \u201cIt would be obviously in breach of our on free trade agreement and so we would hope that\u2019s certainly not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Prime Minister said Tuesday that China would be in breach of World Trade Organization rules as well as a bilateral free trade agreement if it banned Australian coal. Prime Minister Scott Morrison was responding to a report in the Chinese state-owned Global Times newspaper that the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission had given power plants approval to import coal without restrictions except for Australian coal. Morrison said he was treating the report as \u201cmedia speculation\u201d because the Chinese government had yet to clarify its position. \u201cIf that were the case, then that would obviously be in breach of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}