{"id":544,"date":"2019-02-22T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2019\/02\/22\/australian-coal-imports-ban-denied\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:45:23","slug":"australian-coal-imports-ban-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/australian-coal-imports-ban-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian coal imports ban denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customs at the port have banned imports of Australian coal since the start of February and will cap overall coal imports for 2019 through its harbours at 12m tonnes, an official at Dalian Port Group told <em>Reuters <\/em>on 21 February. However, speaking on 22 February, Mr Frydenberg said: \u201cNo they haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated China was not targeting Australia over diplomatic issues and attributed the slowdown to existing testing of coal imports, according to <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Five harbours overseen by Dalian customs \u2014 Dalian, Bayuquan, Panjin, Dandong and Beiliang \u2014 will not allow Australian coal to clear through customs, said the Dalian Port Group official.<\/p>\n<p>Major ports elsewhere in China have prolonged clearing times for Australian coal to at least 40 days.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged ban will not have a \u201cdramatic effect\u201d on the country\u2019s economy, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe said, according to <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lowe said he would not jump to conclusions the move was aimed at Australia, while adding that many other countries buy Australian coal, which is the country\u2019s top export earner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reported ban on Australian coal imports into China\u2019s Port of Dalian has been denied by Australia\u2019s Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}