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What makes our trade relationship with China so hugely significant?

By Simon Dallow, 1News Presenter
November 22, 2019

Simon Dallow gives us all the details about the country's biggest trading partner. (Source: Other)

How our $28 billion of trade with China breaks down - what we ship and import, and how it compares with our other trading partners.

(First published May 2019.)

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