The Trump administration has decided to postpone plans to expand U.S. beef imports, a White House source told [source not specified]. Reuters on Monday night (11). The information emerged after a report by Wall Street Journal Reports indicated that Trump would sign executive orders allowing greater entry of the protein into the country with reduced tariffs. However, by the end of Monday, the White House had not released an official statement or confirmed the measures. According to the report, the package would include the temporary suspension of the current annual tariff quota for beef imports, a mechanism that allows the entry of approximately 700,000 tons of the protein with zero or reduced tariffs. Volumes above this limit are taxed at 26.4%. The system currently provides specific quotas for Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and Uruguay. Brazil, in turn, does not have an exclusive quota and participates in a global quota of 66,000 tons free of tariffs, shared with other exporting countries. Currently, Brazil uses about 50,000 tons of this volume and already shipped that amount in January. In addition to tariff flexibility, the measures discussed would also involve expanding loans for ranchers and reducing environmental protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves, identified as predators of livestock in the US.
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