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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.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I said it before... it is incredible how fast America's dominance is falling. I remember shortly after 9/11 when the idea of US market dominance failing seemed ridicules... even dystopian shit still had the US dollar be number one... but this? Fuck me...

[–] sadfitzy@ttrpg.network 3 points 21 hours ago

It's a good thing.

America will be better off after being taken down a few pegs. They'll start trying again.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

now imagine for a moment - go back to that post-9/11 period - and imagine that our standing in the world and our economic dominance are both failing not because of some new innovation from our competitors, or climactic disturbance in politics or crops, no, it's all falling to shit because, and only because we elected a conman to lead the country, twice, and it's gone terribly both times.

oh and gwb iraq didn't really set things up for greatness, but damn, ten years of trump has run this country right into the ditch.

impressively rapid descent into shitocracy.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world -2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Idk feels more like the Dems and Biden failed the US. Obama, for all his faults, managed to turn things around despite the poor gwb years.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Or they didnt care about money? People can have different priorities and values, and I can think Biden was bad and you think he was good and that both be valid.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

valid, but the context of this discussion was economics. cybersteel thinks "Idk feels more like the Dems and Biden failed the US" - in many contexts this can be valid, but in the specific context of the article posted, the economic impact of silly tariffs and self owns - the biden admin did fine by the economy over all, and the numbers are there on poltifact.

you're certainly entitled to whatever opinions but if you tell me "Idk feels more like the Dems and Biden failed the US. Obama, for all his faults, managed to turn things around despite the poor gwb years." in a discussion about economics, while I don't laud the guy, the admin managed to turn the economy around 180 from trump - that's based on data easily discernable (and with cited notations) on the poltifact article.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Ah but immigrants....

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...and its soy market to South America.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 106 points 2 days ago (9 children)

"U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars"

Wait until this sinks in to the farmer's heads. Next year farmers will fully experience the rotten fruits of the current administration.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

the only thing farmers know is the price that the 5 giant beef companies are paying them for their cows

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

they blame China

[–] dublet@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] jve@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The radical left.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Thanks to Republican education cuts and propaganda, they're dumb as shit and won't put two and two together

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

They won't care. Trump will tell them it was Obama (because he will forget to say Biden).

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Trump is already promising to bail out the farmers with the money from tariffs next year.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, It's what he did the last time he destroyed soybean exports.

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[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most of them won't have enough critical thinking skills to realise what happened. They'll just blame whoever Fox or Tiktok tells them to blame.

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[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And ALL that farmland will be gathered up by “Govt approved corporations”. Then they’ll produce the food after paying shit to the former workers, as well as shit prices for the land.

Like gathering up butterflies…

How’s your Trump now, bitches?

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[–] gonf@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So in the past couple of weeks, MAGA has been Make Argentina Great Again and now Make Australia Great Again.

I wonder what Trump is gonna fuck up next week so that Azerbaijan can swoop in to start selling to China.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago

He already rescued Azerbaijan from two brutal wars that nobody ever heard of. Hasn't he done enough?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Australian here.

I just thought you'd be interested to know that the nutty is kind of leaking.

Thankfully they are very few, but we do have some MAGA Trump supporters here, and yes they occasionally say "make australia great again". Its so shameless.

I live in a place called albany, and yes on precisely one occasion I've seen someone say make albany great again.

We're having a local council election. About a third of the candidates are dickheads with no chance of getting up, and yes they include things like anti-woke and anti-DEI in their bios.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

Someone should run with their platform as, 'Make Dog Rock Great Again!!'

They'd be named emperor of the Great Southern within weeks!

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

An American friend played a season of football for Albany. And another played for Mt Barker.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It makes sense, Australia is much closer. Congratulations to Trump on being so eco-conscious.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Seems a bit woke, honestly.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have noticed Australia is also replacing the US here in Canada as well.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Getting loads of amazing New Zealand apples in Canada now instead of ones from the US. They’re very good! 😊

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago

Good. The tears of the ranchers next will be sweet.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe this will mean red meat will finally get cheaper.

Oh wait, no it won't, we will just lose all that meat and money. Taxpayers will have to foot the bill for Republicans like always.

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

RIP Beef prices here (Australia) for a few years.

Demand will outstrip supply and as always, we'll come second to the export market.

Hopefully this demand is the new normal and not just a bubble, otherwise it's just high prices for nothing.

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