SHANGHAI — China said on Monday it had launched an anti-subsidy investigation on some wine imports from Australia, two weeks after announcing it had begun an anti-dumping probe on such imports. The investigations come against a backdrop of increasing tensions between the two countries after Canberra called for an international inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, which was first detected in China's central city of Wuhan. China's commerce ministry said in an online statement the anti-subsidy investigation was launched on Aug. 31 after a request from the China Wine Industry Association which said the wine imports had received subsidies from the Australian government. The investigation will be on "wines in containers holding 2 liters or less", and should be completed within a year or be extended to end-February 2022 under special circumstances.

Source: International New York Times August 31, 2020 01:57 UTC