{"id":33961,"date":"2014-10-22T23:51:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=33961"},"modified":"2014-10-22T23:51:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:51:49","slug":"australia-to-be-exempt-from-china-coal-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=33961","title":{"rendered":"Australia to be exempt from China coal tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Australian coal will be exempt from controversial new import tariffs imposed by China when the two countries sign a free trade pact, Treasurer Joe Hockey said, although the timing of a deal has yet to be finalised. Australia and China are trying to seal a free trade agreement (FTA) before the end of this year, in a bid to boost two-way trade already worth more than A$150 billion (RM430 billion). Beijing stunned Australia this month by imposing a three per cent tariff on coal used in steel mills and six per cent tariff on coal used in power stations, hitting A$9 billion worth of exports from Australian miners already reeling from a fall in prices. AFP<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1w9TWXI\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Australian coal will be exempt from controversial new import tariffs imposed by China when the two countries sign a free trade pact, Treasurer Joe&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33962,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33961\/revisions\/33962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}