Australian barley farmers tap Mexican beer makers

Australian farmers are continuing their fightback against Chinese trade sanctions, sending their first bulk shipment of malt barley to Mexico, where it could be turned into cartons of Corona. Barley from a near-record harvest is also flying out of Australian ports into the Middle East and south-east Asia as major farming competitors move to curtail exports and China's trade-crippling tariffs reshape international markets. Australian barley could be used to make Corona beer. Bloomberg Mexico, the world's fourth-biggest beer maker, is set to receive its first shipment of Australian malt barley later this month. Exports of feed barley to Saudi Arabia – a market neglected by Australia at the height of the multibillion-dollar-a-year trade with China – have jumped from almost nothing last year to an ...