Melbourne, Australia Australia announced that it would reduce the restrictions on US beef imports, one step by President Trump’s administration claimed as a major victory over “non-scientific trade barriers” to trade.
Agriculture Minister Julie Collins said on Thursday that while resting the restrictions designed to keep Australia free from crazy cow’s disease, also known as a bovine spongeform encephalopathy or BSE, will not compromise on bio -safety.
Colins said in a statement, “Australia stands for open and free trade – our cattle industry has benefited greatly from it.”
Trump administration calls it “major trade success”
US Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins responded to Australia’s announcement by congratulating Mr. Trump “on the major trade success, which provides more access to American beef producers selling Australia.”
He released a statement Under the title: “Agriculture win business again.”
Rollins said, “American farmers and rankers produce the safest, healthy beef in the world. It is absurd that non-scientific business obstacles prevented our beef from selling consumers in Australia for the last 20 years.” “It is the days of keeping American farmers on the spot. This is another example of using such a market so far, the President interacted to bring America to a new golden age of prosperity, proceeding with American agriculture.”
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Australia has allowed the import of beef grown in the US since 2019, but beef from Canada or Mexico is not allowed to import from the US due to the risk of disease.
The US has recently introduced additional agitation controls that recognize and detect all the cattle in Mexico and Canada in their original fields. Australian authorities were “satisfied with the US effectively managing strong control measures managing bio -safety risks,” Coalins said.
The time of new, low restrictions has not been finalized.
Mr. Trump attacked the Australian import sanctions on American beef when he announced in April that a tariff of at least 10% would be placed on Australian imports, with steel and aluminum to face 50% tariffs.
“Australia restrictions – and they are amazing people, and everything is amazing – but they ban American beef,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “Still we imported $ 3 billion Australian beef from him alone last year. They will not take any of our beef. They do not want it because they do not want it to affect their farmers and, you know, I don’t blame them, but we are doing the same thing right now.”
Opposition MP David Littlepraude said that he suspects that the government is putting Australia’s cattle industry in danger to please Mr. Trump.
Concern over crazy cow’s disease in imported cattle
“I want to see science and it should be dedicated to science. I suspect the speed on which it is done,” Littlepraude told reporters.
“We need to give confidence to the industry, but for you (public) too: It is not only about animal welfare, it is about human welfare, it is potentially about coming to this country and having a human impact about BSE, so I think it is important that it is very important about the science of the government and I do not think that it is also believed to review an independent panel.”
About 70% of Australian beef is exported. Producers are afraid that if Australian cattle infected with crazy cow or leg and mouth disease are infected, the export market will disappear overnight.
According to US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there has been there Only six BSE cases in American cattle Since the major international outbreak of the disease – which was concentrated in Britain and other European countries – in the late 1980s and early in the 1990s. One of those cows was imported from Canada and is believed to have been infected there, and the other five, “diagnosed with Atipical BSE, many researchers believe that there is a sporadic disease that is not caused by a contaminated feed,” CDC says.
Will Evans, Conscious Australia’s chief executive who represents more than 52,000 grass-carried out beef producers across the country, stating that he was confident that the Agriculture Department had taken a vigilant approach to American imports.
Evans said, “The department made a technical scientific evaluation and we have to believe in them. They have done this evaluation themselves. He has said: ‘We have noticed this, we’ve noticed the best science, this is a decision with which we feel comfortable,” Evans said.
He said, “When you have an $ 75 billion (Australian $ 50 billion) industry, it is not making a mistake, I am sure they are very cautious in making their decisions,” he said.
But for reasons including relatively weak Australian dollars, the Australian demand for our beef is likely to be low despite low sanctions.
Will Australians buy more American beef?
Cattle Evans of Australia, told Australian Broadcasting Corporation He was not worried about the new government policy flooded in Australia’s domestic market with American beef. He said the US domestic market currently depends on the import of Australian beef, which he said that the US beef was about 50 cents per pound.
“The possibility of his (US) is a very high value market as a market turning and looking at Australia [to export to] Very few, “he said.” If I was the exporter of US beef, I would see Japan, Korea and China as a truly viable and valuable markets. I really do not think of Australia’s rate excessive in that list. ,
Simon Quulti, an analyst of global agricultural trends, agreed that it was unlikely that Australian consumers would soon see us beef on the shelves of their grocery stores.
“Honestly, if a pound of US beef has been sent to Australia in the next three years, I will be Gobsmack,” he told ABC.
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Beef prices Growing in America For years, due to factors that reduce the number of drought and domestic herds for a long time. According to US government data, the average price of one pound beef in the US rose by about 12% to $ 6.12 in June from a year ago. The average price of all uninteresting beef steak rose by 8% to $ 11.49 per pound.
Australia’s opposition to any American tariff would be high on the agenda when Prime Minister Anthony Albani secured his first face-to-face meeting with Mr. Trump.
Albani and Mr. Trump were held a meeting each on the banks of a group of seven summit in Canada last month, but the US President quickly left.
Albani hopes that the pair will be found this year, although no date has been announced.
Both countries have signed a bilateral free trade deal for 20 years and the US has maintained a trade surplus with Australia for decades.
