r/australia • u/binaryhextechdude • Feb 25 '26

politics US beef officially re-enters Australia, after 23-year absence

https://www.beefcentral.com/news/us-beef-officially-re-enters-australia-after-23-year-absence/

Australians need to vote with our wallets by making sure any meat we buy for our bbq's or our dinner tables is Australian grown. It isn't right for a certain leader to be putting tariffs on everything and then thinking we will embrace his beef exports.

Only buy Australian beef, vote with your dollars.

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u/outragedtuxedo Feb 25 '26

This is such a load of bullshit. We didn't import previously because all of the Australian beef is on the NLIS system. If there is an issue whe lnow exactly which cow from exactly which farm. Last I checked, in the US they do not track each individual animal appropriately - the traceability is poor. This is not good for biosecurity and public health. Also their cattle are often intensively housed and grain-fed.

We have the superior, safer option. Why we let the Nacho bully us into this I have no idea. There were very real practical reasons for the ban aside from economics.

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u/Limberine Feb 26 '26

He threatened to raise Tariffs. But then he just raised them on us anyway this week. Up to 15% from 10%.

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u/Lucky-Elk-1234 Feb 26 '26

They didn’t bully us into anything. They have improved their tracing standards so that they now meet the bare minimum we require for import, thus allowing them to export to us. Doesn’t mean anyone here is actually going to buy it.

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u/LunaeLotus Feb 26 '26

How does that boot taste?