According to a report from the US Department of Agriculture, the quota will be raised to 80,000 tons per year. Criticism from North American ranchers against Donald Trump’s government for the measure.
In the last hours it was learned that the government of USA analyzes quadrupling the import quota of Argentine beef from 20,000 to 80,000 tons. The measure of the administration led by Donald Trump generated the anger of agricultural producers in his country.
According to the Ministry of Economy, Argentina has an annual tariff quota for “boneless, fresh, chilled or frozen meat” for 20,000 tons, figure that would quadruple thanks to the new livestock program from the USA.
Uruguay Refrigerator
In the midst of its quest to lower meat prices, Trump “is increasing the tariff quota for Argentine meat four times, taking it to 80,000 metric tons (88,185 tons) a year,” a White House official told Bloomberg.
Although the president had anticipated the purchase of Argentine meat with the aim of lowering prices, there was concern about foot and mouth disease, an issue that US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins had expressed concern about.
The United States’ concern about foot-and-mouth disease in Argentina
Rollins spoke of his country’s concern about the disease that circulates among animals in Argentinawhich would cause them to be more cautious when importing beef.
In a television interview, Rollins assured that the United States consumes around 12 million metric tons of beef per year, and 10 of those 12 are locally produced.
field meat cows agriculture
“The other two million are produced overseas and there are different parts of that. There’s McDonald’s and ground beef versus actual muscle cuts, which for many Americans is the healthy part of this,” he explained.
Despite admitted that Trump “has mentioned a couple of times” the possible opening of the market to Argentine products, He noted that the purchases would not be for large quantities, as initially expected.
“I think we will have more information in the next few days, but As part of those twelve million metric tons, we won’t buy much“said the official.
Source: Ambito
