A CHINESE-owned winery in Sunraysia will dodge paying a hefty new China-imposed tariff for the product it ships back home under a loophole that few of its Australian-owned competitors in the $1.28 billion-a-year export industry can match.

Weilong Wines, which has a new $85 million production site about 8km south-east of Red Cliffs, sends most of the wine it produces from three Victorian farms to China in 24,000-litre bulk containe