Anthony Albanese will outline a role for Australia in facilitating dialogue between big players to ease trade and strategic hurdles, after he claimed his government played a key part in convincing Donald Trump to lift US tariffs on beef.

The Prime Minister will reflect on Australia’s shaping of APEC as a body to steer global economic thinking in a speech in Melbourne on Monday afternoon.

The annual leaders’ summit last month played the backdrop to the American president meeting China’s leader Xi Jinping for the first time since Mr Trump was re-elected.

They agreed to ease somewhat the tit-for-tat tariffs and trade barriers between their countries.

“What it demonstrated is how APEC – and the support for trade generally – can act as a bulwark against conflict,” Mr Albanese will tell the

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