Donald Trump's new rates of 10 percent 'Liberation Day' for all Australian exports to the US could ultimately cost more for local consumers.
The American president hit Australia because he refused to relax his strict Biosecurity measures to get a possible exemption for new mutual rates.
“Australia prohibits – and they are great people, and great everything – but they forbid American beef,” he said.
'Yet last year we only imported $ 3 billion Australian beef last year.
“They don't take any of us beef.
“They don't want it because they don't want it to influence their farmers and you know, I don't blame them, but we're doing the same now at midnight tonight, I would say.”
A kilogram of steak at Woolworths now sells for $ 28.
But the Australian Food Sovereiny Alliance, who represents 350 small -scale farmers, fears that the steak of Australian consumers will cost $ 56 in the supermarket.
The new rates of Donald Trump 's new 10 percent' Liberation Day 'for all Australian exports to the US could ultimately cost more for local consumers.
Spokeswoman Tammi Jonas, a biological producer of Cattle of Daylesford in Victoria, said that the American rates about the import of agricultural buildings would see that more countries would buy Australian beef to prevent them from acting with the US.
“We already know that there is a big demand for Australian beef around the world and I think that is just higher,” she told Daily Mail Australia.
'In a global nutritional crisis like this we could see a tail steak climbing past $ 50 per kilogram.
“That's not a family dinner – that's a premium luxury.”
Dr. Jonas said that higher export prices would see less Australian meat being sold to domestic consumers.
“I would say that there is a strong chance, yes,” she said.
'And even if we have still sold enough beef in Australia, prices will certainly rise.
“When you are on those world markets, you roll with volatility and if they can get a very high price abroad, they will not charge less for domestic sale.”
A kilogram of steak at Woolworths now sells for $ 28 (depicted is a supermarket of Woolworths)
But Angus Gidley-Baird, a senior analyst in Animal Protein with Raboressarch, said that more expensive steak in the supermarket was unlikely, given the strong stock of Australian beef with recent rainfall.
“We produced record volumes last year, I don't see why there would be a shortage on the domestic market, which would rise,” he told Daily Mail Australia.
“The export are effectively our markets in which we sell the extra production.”
Australia has been beaten with blanket 10 percent rates, in line with the VK, Singapore, Brazil and Chile.
But China is hit by a much higher rate of 34 percent, compared to 25 percent for South Korea and 24 percent for Japan.
Data from meat and cattle in Australia showed that the US was the largest market in Australia for the export of beef in 2024, so that it was placed well for Japan, South Korea and China.
Of the beef sent to the United States, 96 percent of them was the slimmer, grass -fed variety that was cooled or frozen.
The Americans have been in the grip of a drought and most of their beef is widely fed.
Australia has been beaten with blanket 10 percent rates, in line with the VK, Singapore, Brazil and Chile. But China is hit by a much higher rate of 34 percent, compared to 25 percent for South Korea and 24 percent for Japan
South American beef expansion Argentina and Brazil also have to do with a lack of rainfall, which means that the demand for Australian beef would remain strong.
Just like Australia, they would also be subjected to rates of 10 percent.
“If it is a big rate, but everyone is applied, our competitive position remains the same,” said Mr. Gidley-Baird.
Gidley-Baird said that the Americans, who produced Fattier, produced grain-fed beef, would still need the slimmer, Australian grass-fed beef to make hamburgerpastes, regardless of import rates.
“The US is still needed imported product because they don't produce that much,” he said.
'They still need Australian beef – the drought, it gets better in the US, but they have liquidated their herd and the production volumes.
'What Australia sends to the US supplements their production system there, because it balances the thick product that they produce for hamburger production.
“They need the product and we are one of the biggest suppliers – I am rational would still say they would still buy it.”
The Australian Food Soevereiny Alliance fears that the steak of the Australian consumers will cost $ 56 in the supermarket. Spokeswoman Tammi Jonas (left) said that the American rates for the import of agriculture would see that more countries would buy Australian beef to prevent trade with the US from
During the margins, the strong American demand for grass -fed beef had increased the prices for Australian Lean MINCE, now sold for $ 15.50 per kilo at Woolworths.
“The American market has been very strong – it demands a considerable amount of product that exerts a little pressure on minced meat prices, Lean product prices,” said Mr. Gidley -Baird.
The Australian Food Soevereiny Alliance sees the prices of the minced meat more than double up to $ 36 per kilo.
But Dr. Jonas predicted that possible rates of a maximum of 25 percent on Australian beef would see American demand diving, despite the fact that they are in drought with a lodging of grass -fed beef.
“I think with a rate of 25 percent they can't afford Americans in such a large cost of living crisis as Australians and they can't handle a rate of 25 percent on top of the higher meat price of imported Australian beef,” she said.
The Australian Food Sovereiny Alliance did not do a specific economic modeling on the Australian loophouses, as a result of the Trump rates on agriculture that will come on Thursday.
But it argued that China's African pork flu in 2019 led to a doubling of pork prices, because the supply fell by 40 percent.
The alliance campaigns against Agribusiness giants such as JBS Foods Australia, who owns feedlots and slaughterhouses.
“The local farmers as we lose access to the facilities to slaughter,” said Dr. Jonas.
“Although that sounds a good thing for Australia – when we think:” We can export more ” – the reality of it, few people benefit from those higher exports.”
They follow 25 percent rates on steel and aluminum, introduced on March 12.
