Australia could use a ban on bio-safety against what in the US-inleg about beef as part of tariff negotiations with America, while Anthony Albanese prepares for an expected meeting with US President Donald Trump.
In 2019, a general ban on the import of American beef to Australia was lifted, but restrictions remain in Canadian and Mexican cattle that was slaughtered in America.
Australia has carried out an overview of those bio -safety rules, after the Trump administration had asked that they were being lifted.
A government source that was familiar with the negotiations told ABC News that pork was forbidden due to high biosewur risks.
The source said beef was positioned as a negotiating ship to help the trade tires reset after the US had imposed hard rates on exporting Aussie – including 50 percent on steel and aluminum – and 10 percent on all products.
Civil servants believe that limited changes in the regulations can be made without jeopardizing the food safety of Australia – although they recognize the risk of recoiling local agricultural groups.
The prime minister is expected to meet Mr Trump on the sidelines of the upcoming G7 top in Canada, with trade high on the agenda.
If the meeting continues, it is not expected to yield a final agreement, but it could lay the foundation for further trade and tariff negotiations.
PM previously concluded from negotiations on beef
America has previously increased the rules for biosafility as one of a list of trading with Australia.
During the recent election campaign, Mr. Albanese said that those issues were not for negotiation.
“Not on my watch. We will negotiate wisely, but we will not undermine the bio -safety system,” he told reporters on 1 April.
On Friday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese again stated that he would not compromise about biosafety as part of tariff negotiations and said that the sector was in discussion.
“If things can be solved in a way that of course protects biosafility,” he said.
“We don’t say no, we don’t want import in this because of it, but our first priority is biosafility and there will be no compromise about that.”
Responding to first reports in the nine newspapers, which confirmed the ABC, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie said that the beef industry’s beef industry should not be used as “pawns” in tariff negotiations with the US.
“We have to make decisions about importing beef based on science and the biosafety risk with that import, not in a sort of compromised deal or no deal with the United States,” she said.
Australia has not imported beef from the US since the prohibition in 2019.
A spokesperson for the Australian Meat Industry Council noted that the US had an “active technical request” to extend the access of beef to Australia, which “underwent the usual scientific risk assessments against the Biosecurity and Food Safety requirements of Australia.
“Our expectation is that the normal process will continue and that the US request will only be approved if it matches Australia in Australia with the appropriate level of protection and equality of our food safety requirements,” the spokesperson said.
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