U.s. Suspends Beef Imports From Brazil
NCBA: Stop Imports of Brazil Fresh Beefiness
NCBA Renews Call to Stop Brazilian Fresh Beef as U.s.a. Imports Surge
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- With a 131% increase in beefiness imports from Brazil into the U.Due south. reported in 2021 and a continuation of that blueprint early in 2022, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association on Mon renewed its call for U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to suspend fresh beef imports from Brazil.
The surge of imports triggered a temporary tariff safeguard of 26.4% applied to Brazilian beef imports for the rest of 2022.
While a temporary tariff increase "may discourage" further fresh beefiness imports from Brazil, it does non accost the underlying concern over Brazil's "repeated failure" to adhere to international animal wellness and nutrient safety standards, NCBA said in a news release this calendar week.
"We are, once once again, calling on Secretary Vilsack to suspend fresh beefiness imports from Brazil, because of that country'south long history of declining to report BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) cases in a timely manner," NCBA Vice President of Government Diplomacy Ethan Lane, said in a argument.
"It's incredibly disappointing to take our scientific discipline-based recommendations met with no notable response by the U.S. Section of Agronomics. Every bit beefiness imports from Brazil continue to ascent, we urge USDA to reconsider their opinion on Brazilian beef and have necessary action to safeguard the integrity of the entire U.S. food supply concatenation."
In November 2021, U.S. cattle groups were united in pressing the Biden administration to stop beef imports from Brazil subsequently the World Organization for Animal Health said Brazil took more than eight weeks to report two confirmed cases of atypical BSE.
The OIE requires countries to study within 24 hours whatever animal illness result that could be of international business concern for public health emergencies.
Terminal year, Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness was detected in two people in Brazil. The CJD, according to Brazilian agricultural ministry officials, was sporadic in the cases and not caused past eating beef or beef byproducts.
Archetype BSE has been linked to variant CJD in people. That version of BSE largely is caused by feed contaminated with the infectious prion agent, such as meat-and-bone meal containing poly peptide derived from rendered, infected cattle.
Brazil confirmed two cases of atypical BSE on Sept. 4, 2021, in animals in meat-processing plants and not acquired by contaminated feed.
NCBA and R-CALF USA differed in their requests last year. NCBA asked for the suspension of fresh beef imports, while R-CALF wanted all beef imports stopped.
Only 12% of beefiness consumed in America is imported, according to NCBA, and most 75% of beefiness imports are lean-beef trimmings used in combination with fattier trimming to make basis beefiness.
The majority of imported beefiness comes from countries that have formalized trade agreements with the U.S., NCBA said, or who accept specific import quotas.
All other beef imports are sold nether the "other countries" annual quota of 65,000 metric tons. Beef sold under the "other countries" quota is a charged a rate of iv.4 cents per kilogram, and beef sold above the quota is charged a 26.four% tariff.
According to the latest U.S. Community and Border Protection report, the "other countries" quota is total, resulting in a tariff increase on beef imports from Brazil, Japan, Ireland, Republic of lithuania and the United Kingdom for the remainder of 2022. A majority of the quota was met with the fifty,000 metric tons of fresh beefiness imports from Brazil to the U.S. in the showtime quarter of 2022.
The spike in beefiness imports from Brazil comes at a time when cattle and calves on feed for slaughter totaled 12.2 one thousand thousand in USDA'due south latest Cattle on Feed study. It was the highest March inventory number since 1996. Not only was this a high-water marker for the history of the USDA report, just information technology was a ane% bump above 2021 levels. The numbers focused only on feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 head or more.
Read more than on DTN:
"Feeder Inventory Bursting," https://world wide web.dtnpf.com/…
"Groups Want Brazil Beef Imports Stopped," https://www.dtnpf.com/…
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