Abstract: This report is an abridged version of two reports by John Longworth, Colin Brown and Scott Waldron, “Domestic Wool Marketing in China” and “Chinese Domestic Wool Production”, both completed in January 2005. Australia and China are two of the world’s biggest wool producers, but there is negligible competition between the two wool growing industries because almost all the wool produced in China is used as raw material for the manufacture of different end-products to those that are produced from imported Australian wool. Most Chinese produced wool differs markedly from wool imported from Australia in many important respects but especially in being much more heterogenous and in having a much larger mean fibre diameter. Even the approximately one-third of Chinese greasy wool production described in the statistics as “fine wool” includes relatively little wool that could be compared with standard Australian “merino-style” wool.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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