Australia’s Lion Dairy sale to China’s Mengniu called off
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The proposed sale was canceled on Tuesday. The Australian company, Lion Dairy, and its owner, Japanese beverage giant Kirin, both said in separate statements that approval from regulators was “unlikely to” materialize.
The source told the newspaper that the decision was made due to “diplomatic issues.”
Frydenberg confirmed Tuesday that he had told Mengniu Dairy “that the proposed acquisition would be contrary to the national interest.”
The companies then moved to call off the deal.
“Given this approval is unlikely to be forthcoming at this time, Lion and Mengniu Dairy have mutually agreed to cease the current sale process,” Lion Dairy said in a statement. “We are disappointed with this outcome and will now consider pathways forward.”
Last week, the Chinese Commerce Ministry took aim at another industry. It announced an anti-dumping probe into imports of Australian wine.
Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham last Tuesday rejected claims of wine dumping, saying that he found the accusations “perplexing.”
“Australian wine is by no means subsidized and by no means sold at or below market rates in the world market,” he told reporters. “The Australian government will work closely with the wine industry to defend these allegations and help ensure we put forward the strongest of possible cases to prevent the application of tariffs or duties on our winemakers.”
— Vanesse Chan, Angus Watson and Ben Westcott contributed to this report.
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