Beef

US beef exports to China to pick up as rivals exhaust quotas

Pardoo Wagyu found Bruce Cheung.

Department store heir to outback cattleman: Inside Bruce Cheung’s US$130m wagyu gamble

Australia's government said it was "disappointed" with China's decision to impose new beef import tariffs, with one industry group warning the move could damage trade worth over A$1 billion between the two countries.

China imposes curbs on beef imports to protect domestic industry

Beef prices set records in 2025 after a years-long drought burned up pasture lands and hiked feeding costs for cattle, forcing ranchers to slash the nation’s herd to the smallest level in nearly 75 years.

US Justice Department probes meatpackers for price manipulation, collusion

Australia’s stringent biosecurity rules blocked imports of cattle slaughtered in the United States, but born in Canada or Mexico.

Australia lifts trade barriers on US beef

A worker uses a forklift to move boxes of imported pork from the US at a cold storage warehouse in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

China renews export registrations for US pork, poultry plants in relief to farmers

Chinese demand for beef has surged by nearly 40 times over the last half-century as a more affluent population developed a taste for steak and hotpots.

Record beef imports raising risk of China imposing trade curbs

For pig producers, “emerging markets are significantly less vulnerable, given the stable domestic demand for pork and delayed implementation of climate policies,” Fitch said.

Pork producers face downgrades as climate risks rise, Fitch says

China will consume 11.712 million tons of beef in 2025, up 0.25 per cent from this year’s forecast.

China’s beef demand poised for smallest growth in a decade, USDA says

While meat from ractopamine-fed animals is considered safe for human consumption by US authorities, the substance is banned in several countries.

China halts shipments from JBS beef plant in US over feed additive