With the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in China, Australian beef exports increase in January 2023

With the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in China, Australian beef shipments have become easier in the last month and the volume shipped has also increased. According to information from the Beef Central website, the Chinese are actively buying Australian beef again. During the pandemic, China began testing to see if it had contamination in beef shipped from other countries. China even suspended shipments from eight slaughterhouses of beef and lamb from Australia between May 2020 and September 2021. However, the Covid tests carried out for imports of chilled and frozen foods were suspended on January 8, which has facilitated port procedures. “It seems that there has been a change in checking at ports for Australian beef, which was previously exposed to long waiting periods, and was even longer than products from Brazil,” said a source on the Beef Central website. Safras & Mercado analyst Fernando Henrique Iglesias pointed out that livestock production in Australia was impacted by ...