The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a proclamation that enables an additional quota of 80,000 tons of beef for Argentina through 2026, although with a key clarification that changes the reading of the announcement: it is not about traditional cuts or premium products but exclusively lean beef trimmings intended to be mixed with local production to make ground beef and, above all, hamburgers. “What is sought is to mix our lean meat with theirs that has excess fat,” commented an exporter visibly disappointed with the measure. The official document itself makes it clear that the goal is to ensure the supply of ground beef for the domestic U.S. market. It points out that among the products the United States imports are “lean trimmings, which are mixed with fattier domestic trimmings to produce ground beef, such as hamburgers.”