Australia claims to oppose China to join CPTPP, unless Beijing stops attacking their exports and resuming the Minister-level contact.

As we have conveyed to China, these are important issues that require the participation of the Ministers, Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan said on September 17, mentioning that China applied for

Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan in the press conference in Canberra capital in December 2020.

According to Tehan, Beijing cannot join CPTPP until persuading members of the current trade agreements, as well as the conditions of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

CPTPP members want to be confident that joining candidates will fully implement the commitments in the Agreement in a good choice, Tehan said.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce on September 16 announced that the country officially applied for CPTPP accession, the world's largest trade agreement was signed in 2018 in Chile.

However, China needs the support of all CPTPP members to be admitted, including Australia, one of the 6 countries has completed the approval of the Agreement.

Since then, China has issued regulations targeting Australian exports such as coal, lobster, round timber, anti-dumping duty on wine and barley, making them no longer competitive

CPTPP includes 11 Australian Member States, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, New Zealand, Peru and Vietnam, which are valid for Vietnam from the beginning of 2019. In total, these countries have 495