Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.

U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.

Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world’s biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 day ago

    Maybe this will mean red meat will finally get cheaper.

    Oh wait, no it won’t, we will just lose all that meat and money. Taxpayers will have to foot the bill for Republicans like always.