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Under Trump, US cedes its share of China's beef market to Australia

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.

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www.reuters.com /world/china/under-trump-us-cedes-its-share-chinas-beef-market-australia-2025-09-29/

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Under Trump, US cedes its share of China's beef market to Australia

www.reuters.com /world/china/under-trump-us-cedes-its-share-chinas-beef-market-australia-2025-09-29/

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US cattle inventory is at a 70 year low anyways.
https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/h702q636h/nz807x85h/1g05hb55x/catl0725.pdf
Meaning we couldn't keep up with global markets anyways. Let other countries take on the ecological destruction that comes with trying to export meat. Every have a feed lot next to your water supply or a processing plant in your town? We need to fall back to smaller domestic market where local butchers are actually needed to supply their communities and not large grocery stores.
- Listen dude, if you want to get the uparrows you gotta say how this hurts America, maybe a little #fucktrump, et cetera.
  
  Uhhhhhh what. America not selling beef over seas hurts America in the short term. That's too much beef for just America. Our beef is worse quality anyways.
  
  My preferred beef, personally, is from local farms, and so I'm all about the idea about smaller farms. I'd be lying if I said I didn't buy from factory farms, chicken, beef, and pork, but I try to go local when possible.
  Although as I'm writing this, I'm really not sure if local meats and their prices are affected much by the factory farms.
  So yeah, I guess all I mean is that I'm totally cool with an America that has fewer factory farms, the operations, from top to bottom, seem to thrive on just terrible conditions, environmentally and all. And I'm also cool with the massively wealthy families who own these farms maybe feeling a squeeze.
  
  Liberals don't like it when you highlight that what they support is bad too.
  Yes, it's shitty for business and the economy and will hurt the country short term and these export relationships may never be rebuilt, and that's counter to what Trump promised so "haha leopards eating faces".
  But when you highlight that these industries are harmful and exploitative appendages of the American empire, and their collapse will give your children a chance at a better future, downvotes and disengagement.

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