Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.
U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.
Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world’s biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.
It makes sense, Australia is much closer. Congratulations to Trump on being so eco-conscious.
in global shipping, closeness actually doesn’t make things necessarily more eco friendly: when you have 100 ships full of cargo heading from china to the US, they’ve got to return too… either they return full of something, or nothing
i’m not sure how it all works out in this case, but slowly moving things from the US to asia is practically free, in pretty much all regards
Seems a bit woke, honestly.
Australia isn’t woke, it has crocodiles!
And the world’s deadliest spiders.
Notoriously sleepy reptiles.
Also koalas, arguably the least woke mammals on earth.
We even have lizard called a Sleepy Lizard. Cant get more Anti Woke than that