SA: Import restrictions would hurt wool industry: Olsen

AAP General News (Australia)
01-12-1999
SA: Import restrictions would hurt wool industry: Olsen

ADELAIDE, Jan 12 AAP - Any plans by China to place import restrictions on processed wool
would have a significant impact on South Australian wool producers, Premier John Olsen said
today.

Mr Olsen said there had been suggestions that import restrictions would take effect this
year and raised the issue in a meeting with the Chinese Minister of Agriculture, Chen Yaobang,
on a five-day trade visit to China.

"There has been a suggestion of import restrictions coming into effect sometime in the
first half of 1999 …