Australia tries to salvage EU trade talks after being ‘offered too little and asked too much’

Australia has complained about the European Union’s restrictive import quotas on products such as beef. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP

Australia will try to salvage trade talks with the European Union while stepping up complaints that the bloc has so far “offered too little and asked too much”.

The assistant minister for trade, Tim Ayres, will meet European counterparts on the sidelines of the G20 trade summit in India this week with the goal of getting the negotiations back on track.