Australian wine makers hit by China dumping probe     

Trade between the two countries was worth €143bn last year

Penfolds wine

China has begun an anti-dumping probe into imports of Australian wine, a move that knocked a fifth off the market value of Australia’s biggest winemaker and is likely to worsen tension between the nations.

The investigation by China’s commerce ministry will look at imports of wine from Australia in containers of two litres or less in 2019, the ministry said, and examine any damage to the domestic wine industry from 2015 to 2019.