Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham says the Albanese government should be mounting the “strongest possible case” about the trade surplus enjoyed between the US and Australia.

Anthony Albanese has met China's President Xi Jinping ahead of the G20 summit.

“That, as occurred under the previous Coalition government, provides strong grounds – along with the need for both our countries to be as strong as possible – for Australia to get exemptions from proposed Trump administration trade tariffs,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia.

“It’s one of the reasons why I’ve suggested that Prime Minister Albanese should have been using his time in South America to also seek a meeting, an early meeting with President Trump.”

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