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Australian farmers react to Trump’s new 10% import tax
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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4/3/2025
Beef farmers are breathing a sigh of relief at the news America’s tariff on red meat is less than expected. With its high reliance on the US market Tasmania had been bracing for the worst.
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It's fair to say that farmers across Tasmania have met the news of a 10% tariff with somewhat
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of a sense of relief compared to what it could have been.
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In this region, America is an incredibly important export market.
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I've got here with me now Bernard Atkins, a livestock agent who can explain a bit more
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about that.
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Bernard, how important is America to Tasmania and this region in particular?
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Well good afternoon Mel, it's very important to the fact is that a lot of beef out of Tasmania
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ends up into America, especially ground beef.
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We've seen last year all total exports out of Australia of $3.4 billion, which is massive.
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A lot of people don't understand though that with tariff that we've had this morning that
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I believe that's fairly light to what it could have been.
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Is that a relief?
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Is that welcome news?
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Well it's very much a relief and a lot of other people don't understand either that.
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The average person in the street wouldn't understand that the exports that we put into
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America, we take double back from America in all sorts of things, from phones to electrical
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products and so on and so on.
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And when their product comes in, the Americans' imports come into Australia, remember that
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we put 10% GST on that and a lot of people forget about that.
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And so what they've actually done with our beef, they're putting 10% on our beef when
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it arrives back into America.
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That is going to affect certain things, mainly the American public that go to McDonalds and
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Hungry Jacks because the biggest percentage of our export of beef, which was as I said
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$3.4 billion worth, is ending up in those big companies in America.
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And that's the trim, so all that bit of the animal that's not the premium steaks, that's
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all ground up and put into burgers.
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Why do they take all of that?
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Because they haven't got enough.
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The American herd now is about at 48% to 49% of what it should normally be.
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They've lost millions of cattle within droughts and so forth and weather conditions.
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So they are hungry for our beef and our beef is the best beef in the world, without doubt.
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Despite Tasmania's reliance on the US as an export market, it seems farmers are fairly
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relieved that their tariffs are not as bad as it could have been and frankly they have
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bigger fish to fry at the moment.
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