{"id":17614,"date":"2025-07-24T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17614\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:54:09","slug":"australian-news-and-politics-live-don-farrell-insists-us-beef-import-decision-based-on-science-not-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17614\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian news and politics live: Don Farrell insists US beef import decision based on science not politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Trade Minister Don Farrell says he hasn\u2019t contacted his Trump administration counterpart, Jamieson Greer, regarding the changes to beef import rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">It comes as the Coalition accuses the Albanese Government of allowing US beef to attempt to catch up on Trump tariff talks, \u201cat the expense of biosecurity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe don\u2019t link biosecurity issues with trade issues. The Americans can do what they like,\u201d the Trade Minister told Sky News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He said he would continue mounting an argument against the US imposing tariffs on Australia on the merits of the existing trading relationship, which is overwhelmingly in favour of the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Australia has been hit with 50 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium, the same as other countries except the UK, which faces 25 per cent, along with the 10 per cent baseline \u201creciprocal tariff\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Senator Farrell said it took two-and-a-half years to get all of China\u2019s trade impediments removed, saying it would take time to work on the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI can\u2019t read the minds of the Americans, particularly not President Trump,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade Minister Don Farrell says he hasn\u2019t contacted his Trump administration counterpart, Jamieson Greer, regarding the changes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}