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Germany dismisses Australia’s claims that planned EU carbon border tax is ‘protectionism’

Exclusive: Dr Jürgen Zattler, an official at Germany’s ministry for economic cooperation and development, says the policy is a tool to fight global warming

A senior German government official has dismissed claims from Australian government ministers that carbon border charges could become a new form of protectionism.

Dr Jürgen Zattler, a director general at the German federal ministry for economic cooperation and development, told Guardian Australia such a policy would be a tool to fight global warming, not a tool to protect domestic industry.

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