Australian wool prices lifted sharply this week amid accelerating demand from China.

The industry's benchmark Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) climbed 109 cents a kilogram to 1,453 cents — its highest point since June 2022.

The EMI has now risen 10 weeks in a row, the longest run of price rises since 1987.

Speaking to ABC Landline after a trip to the Nanjing Wool Conference in China, Endeavour Wool Exports trading manager Josh Lamb said the Chinese government was looking to replace uniforms, which was creating demand, and there was new appetite for wool-based activewear.

"So when you get a rise in demand from China and lay that over a historically low wool clip [in Australia] then you get the type of market we've seen in the last few months," he said.

"Most customers in China have been

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