The US Meat Export Federation says there are several reasons the US Trade Representative’s office needs to make progress on Japan’s safeguard threshold for imports of US beef.
President and CEO Dan Halstrom says one of those is keeping US beef competitive on the global market. “Our primary competition around the world, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, that are CPTPP trading partners, do not have any risk of triggering the safeguard.”
Japan’s imports of US beef exceeded the safeguard threshold in 2021 and triggered a higher tariff rate of 38.5% (up from 25.8% on US beef muscle cuts.
