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Australia will lift restrictions on the importation of beef from the US, a trade barrier which had angered the Trump administration.
American beef has effectively been banned from the country – which has some of the strictest biosecurity laws in the world – since 2003 after an outbreak of mad cow disease.
The White House had cited the restrictions when explaining tariffs imposed on Australia in April, and US authorities reacted to the news by saying the major trade breakthrough would “Make Agriculture Great Again”.
The Australian government has denied the timing of the decision was related to the trade tiff, saying a decade-long department review found the US had improved beef safety measures.
Canberra technically lifted the ban on US beef in 2019, but cattle from Mexico and Canada remained on the blacklist, and the integration of their supply chains meant this essentially barred beef from the States too.
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