THE GUARDIAN: Levy on beef exceeding quotas to begin immediately as Beijing seeks to protect domestic industry
Australian beef producers said they were “extremely disappointed” after China announced a 55% tariff on imports that exceed quota levels in a move to protect a domestic cattle industry slowly emerging from oversupply.
China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday the total import quota for 2026 for Australia and other countries such as Brazil and the US covered under its new “safeguard measures” is 2.7m metric tons, roughly in line with the record 2.87m tons it imported overall in 2024.
The new annual quota levels are set below import levels for the first 11 months of 2025 for Australia as well as its top supplier, Brazil.
“The increase in the amount of imported beef has seriously damaged China’s domestic industry,” the ministry said in announcing the measure after an investigation launched last December.
The measure takes effect on 1 January for three years, with the total quota increasing annually. » | Martin Farrer and Dan Jervis-Bardy | Thursday, January 1, 2026
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Thursday, January 01, 2026
Sunday, January 28, 2024
France Tries to Contain Protests by Farmers as Outrage Spreads
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The government announced measures to quell the anger, including the scrapping of a fuel tax increase, as thousands of tractors blocked highways across the country.
Farmers blocking the entrance of a supermarket burn tires in Le Mans, in northwestern France, on Friday. | Guillaume Souvant/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Protests by farmers angered by complex regulations, administrative hassles and low wages spread across France on Friday, blocking several highways, snarling traffic for miles and forcing the country’s new prime minister to tear up his schedule and head to a remote farm in the region where the demonstrations began.
Gabriel Attal, the 34-year-old prime minister who took office this month, arrived late in the afternoon in southwestern France to try to ease the tension.
“Without our farmers, we are no longer France,” he declared at a cattle farm in Montastruc-de-Salies, in the Haute-Garonne region. He appeared intent on convincing his rural audience that its angry message had been received, even as some tractor convoys inched closer to Paris.
Mr. Attal said that the government would scrap plans to reduce state subsidies on the diesel fuel used in trucks and other farming machinery, and he promised that it would significantly cut back the time-consuming bureaucratic regulations farmers must follow. For example, 14 different regulations on hedges would be merged into one. » | Roger Cohen and Aurelien Breeden, Reporting from Paris | Friday, January 26, 2024
En direct, colère des agriculteurs : Marc Fesneau promet des « mesures complémentaires » dès mardi : Le ministre de l’agriculture a promis dimanche une « tolérance zéro » en cas de « violences et de dégradations » alors que certains agriculteurs veulent mettre en place lundi « un siège de la capitale pour une durée indéterminée ». LIVE EN COURS »
Protests by farmers angered by complex regulations, administrative hassles and low wages spread across France on Friday, blocking several highways, snarling traffic for miles and forcing the country’s new prime minister to tear up his schedule and head to a remote farm in the region where the demonstrations began.
Gabriel Attal, the 34-year-old prime minister who took office this month, arrived late in the afternoon in southwestern France to try to ease the tension.
“Without our farmers, we are no longer France,” he declared at a cattle farm in Montastruc-de-Salies, in the Haute-Garonne region. He appeared intent on convincing his rural audience that its angry message had been received, even as some tractor convoys inched closer to Paris.
Mr. Attal said that the government would scrap plans to reduce state subsidies on the diesel fuel used in trucks and other farming machinery, and he promised that it would significantly cut back the time-consuming bureaucratic regulations farmers must follow. For example, 14 different regulations on hedges would be merged into one. » | Roger Cohen and Aurelien Breeden, Reporting from Paris | Friday, January 26, 2024
En direct, colère des agriculteurs : Marc Fesneau promet des « mesures complémentaires » dès mardi : Le ministre de l’agriculture a promis dimanche une « tolérance zéro » en cas de « violences et de dégradations » alors que certains agriculteurs veulent mettre en place lundi « un siège de la capitale pour une durée indéterminée ». LIVE EN COURS »
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
US Wants UK to Open Up Its Agriculture Markets as Part of New Trade Deal
GUARDIAN INTERNATIONAL: Potentially wide-ranging agreement could be unachievable due to British objections to lower animal welfare standards
The US is pushing for Britain to open up its agricultural markets to US traders as part of a new economic agreement that would fall just short of a free trade agreement.
Washington and London have begun negotiations over a “foundational trade partnership”, which would cover subjects such as digital trade, labour protections and agriculture, according to documents seen by the Guardian and first revealed by Politico.
The partnership would not guarantee any particular levels of access for service providers to offer their products in each other’s countries, meaning it would fall short of the full free trade agreement that was promised by Brexit supporters after the leave vote.
The negotiations could run into trouble, especially over agriculture. Previous talks over a free trade agreement stalled in part because the UK refused to provide access to American food products such as chlorine-washed chicken or hormone-injected beef. » | Kiran Stacey, Political correspondent | Tuesday, October 3, 2023
From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections: A proposed federal law would wipe out existing state laws that prevent farm animal brutality and the spread of disease »
The US is pushing for Britain to open up its agricultural markets to US traders as part of a new economic agreement that would fall just short of a free trade agreement.
Washington and London have begun negotiations over a “foundational trade partnership”, which would cover subjects such as digital trade, labour protections and agriculture, according to documents seen by the Guardian and first revealed by Politico.
The partnership would not guarantee any particular levels of access for service providers to offer their products in each other’s countries, meaning it would fall short of the full free trade agreement that was promised by Brexit supporters after the leave vote.
The negotiations could run into trouble, especially over agriculture. Previous talks over a free trade agreement stalled in part because the UK refused to provide access to American food products such as chlorine-washed chicken or hormone-injected beef. » | Kiran Stacey, Political correspondent | Tuesday, October 3, 2023
From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections: A proposed federal law would wipe out existing state laws that prevent farm animal brutality and the spread of disease »
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