You should hope that all the others, per your say, coal, iron, lithium and uranium doesn't follow shortly/later. Otherwise you have other means of obtaining your information, we all will be hearing it from the same grapevine. No researches required.

Above should read UNLESS you have other means, not OTHERWISE you have other means. So sorry.

You do realize that Australia can sell to other countries in the middle east etc. I'm not trying to be an d*ck man, but really I don't throw all my eggs into one basket when working for myself, I don't import all my items to sell from china, I have other countries and local too where I source my stock from.

You do realize if there is a trade war it effects everyone and it will come back on china not us, lets say we put tariffs on all imports, it effects large companies, they will then blame china. as south coffee said. if china has a reduction in exports to some countries, that would effect their economy a LOT More.

I feel your situation but personally I dont think there's a lot to be worried about, this will blow over, You are watching the media too much during this epidemic the media is doing nothing but driving fear into people.

LOL why would they impose tariffs on things that benefit their country like they need the material to produce their goods, Australia is rich in materials and they know it. They out-way food, http://www.worldstopexports.com/australias-top-10-exports/
The tariffs hurt them more than us, just a threat like North Korea

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@davewil1964 wrote:

Due to the drought and bushfires, and consequent lack of animals, the price of beef was due to go through the roof. Maybe those suppliers will sell their beef to Australians, so we can get it at reasonable prices.

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I get it that everyone wants a bargain, that's human nature. The problem with droughts and fires is that they push the cost of production for farmers through the roof as hungry animals require scarce feed that also increases in cost due to the drought. This happens at the same time as income from sales of stock crashes. Unfortunately stock losses also occur as older or weaker stock are unable to survive the vagaries of drought and the percentage of young stock born falls dramatically as hungry animals naturally don't fall pregnant.

 

The result is farmers don't receive any income for the period of the drought ( often years ) and also have to borrow heavily to feed their core breeding flocks to begin again once the drought is finished.

 

As a farmer it is interesting to watch the social panic and governments frantically scrambling to provide income support through Jobkeeper or jobseeker programs the moment those in the cities face no wages for a relatively short period of time. As a drought affected farmer, I,ve just been through an 18 month period of drought with absolutely no income and no support of any sort from anyone.

 

The way this works in reality is that farmers income works on much longer time frames than city wage earners. Crops cost a lot of money up front with the income coming perhaps 12 - 18 months later. Its the same with livestock. It takes around two years from the time of introducing the bull to the cows for a steak to land on a city persons plate.

 

Farmers rely on an increase in stock prices at the end of the drought as a way to partially repair finances and to start to draw some kind of wage again. If city residents want to take that away from farmers in order to " sell beef to Australians so we can get it at reasonable prices '' you are basically asking farmers to provide you with a product but not accept any wage of any sort for several years or any form of restitution for feed costs during the drought. 

 

Are you willing to go to work for several years without any form of income, just so that others can save a few dollars and have your services cheaper ?

Well said Chamo, the amount of people that don't realise what you're saying is staggering.

Set the location refinement to 'within'  X klms from your postcode.

 

Whatever klms you think you need, I guess.

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@hevvyhevvy wrote:

I'd love to see country filters.

 

I'd also love to see ebay banning the use of the Australian flag on listing images and "au" in usernames for sellers based overseas and also for Australia based sellers providing china dropshipped products. It's Australia's flag...why do they get to use it?

 

At very least I'd like to have a way to set the "Australia Only" filter as the default so I don't have to change it every time I conduct a new search...if there is a way to do this, I haven't found it.

 

 

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When you set the Australia Only filter you are seeing sellers who post to Australia, not seller who are in Australia.  This shows you all the Asian sellers who ship to Australia as well as the Asian sellers with stock actually in Australia.