‘This is very big’: Delighted Trump hails Australian beef deal for a second day

Donald Trump is very excited about the prospect of more US beef on Australian shelves gushing about it for a second consecutive day.

Donald Trump has again riffed about Australia’s decision to allow more US beef to come in to the country claiming on Friday it would be the “first time” American beef would be sold in Australia.

Seemingly out of the blue on Friday, and a full day after he declared victory due to Australia dropping its restrictions, Mr Trump was back on his TruthSocial platform talking about it again.

“Australia to take US BEEF for first time,” he wrote on Friday morning, US time.

“A very BIG market. I hope our GREAT FARMERS ARE HAPPY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

Australia had not banned US beef. But on Thursday, agriculture minister Julie Collins confirmed Australia will remove the ban on American beef that came from cattle originating in Canada and Mexico after a decade-long review.

It was originally put in place to stop bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as mad cow disease, from coming into Australia.

Since 2019, Australia has allowed imports of beef raised and slaughtered in the US. But it did not allow for the import into Australia via the US of beef raised in neighbouring countries.

Additional measures put in place by the US to track the origin of Canadian and Mexican beef are being cited as the reason Australia is now satisfied.

US President Donald Trump has again spoken about Australai removing restrictions on Australoid beef. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

“For a long time, and even though we are great friends, they actually banned our Beef,” said Mr Trump on Thursday, US time.

Now, we are going to sell so much to Australia because this is undeniable and irrefutable Proof that US Beef is the Safest and Best in the entire World.”

The US imports billions of dollars of Australian beef each years which is leaner than American beef.

US beef originating from Canada and Mexico will now bendable to she sold in Australia. Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

Decision based on ‘science’

The Albanese government has been quick to deny the timing has anything to do with drawn-out tariff talks with the US, reported NewsWire.

But removing restrictions was one of Washington’s key demands in tariff negotiations, with Mr Trump specifically accusing Australia of banning American beef during remarks on “liberation day” – the day the US imposed blanket tariffs on all foreign imports, including Australian products.

But both Ms Collins and Trade Minister Don Farrell have claimed it is simply a coincidence the beef review ended just weeks after the US President threatened a 200 per cent tariff on foreign-made pharmaceuticals.

“We haven’t made any compromise, and we certainly haven’t compromised Australia’s strict biosecurity laws,” Senator Farrell told reporters huddled in a Parliament House corridor on Thursday.

“This has been a process that’s been underway for the last 10 years.

“It’s now come to a completion, and it’s appropriate that we announce the results of that inquiry, but at no stage do we risk our terrific biosecurity standards for any trade arrangement.”

– with Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer, NewsWire

Originally published as ‘This is very big’: Delighted Trump hails Australian beef deal for a second day