ANALYSIS: Australian Beef Trade Matrix - H1 2026 Market Review and H2 2026 Outlook
China's newly minted safeguard quota policy, which came into effect on New Year's Day, completely rewrote the commercial playbook for Australia's beef sector during the first half of 2026.
The response was front-loading on two fronts: systematic, quota-aware placement into China to stay inside the 55% tariff threshold, running in parallel with an accelerated drawdown of available safeguard allowance in Korea.
This dual-market acceleration produced a historic 805,379 metric tons (MT) of exports in H1, representing a 14.7% increase year-on-year (YOY) and...
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