{"id":303839,"date":"2026-02-18T06:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:54:11","slug":"brazil-races-to-china-beef-cap-as-55-tariff-risks-price-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303839\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil races to China beef cap as 55% tariff risks price collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Brazil is on course to exhaust its annual beef export quota to China by September, industry researchers said on Tuesday, as the government warns that uncontrolled shipments could trigger a collapse in domestic prices and jobs in the cattle sector.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">If the pace of exports recorded in January is maintained, Brazil will fill its 2026 quota of 1.106 million tonnes well before year end, according to the Centre for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics at the University of Sao Paulo, known as Cepea.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the first month of 2026 alone, Brazil shipped 119,630 tonnes of beef to China, the largest volume ever recorded for January.<\/p>\n<p>The surge comes despite <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3338320\/china-imposes-beef-import-quota-slaps-over-quota-tariffs-shield-local-industry?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new restrictions<\/a> imposed by Beijing in December that limit how much beef major suppliers can send under a lower tariff regime.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China announced that imports exceeding a fixed country quota in 2026 would face a 55 per cent tariff, sharply above the standard 12 per cent rate. The measure applies to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and the United States. For Brazil, the ceiling was set at about 1.1 million tonnes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shipments above that threshold risk becoming commercially unviable and, in an internal letter obtained by the Brazilian newspaper of record Folha de S. Paulo last week, the Ministry of Agriculture said the absence of a coordinated response could lead to \u201cstrong disorganisation of trade flows\u201d and raise the risk of a \u201ccollapse in prices and employment\u201d across the beef supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil is on course to exhaust its annual beef export quota to China by September, industry researchers said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3858,986,2102,1347,143396,72,143399,114,113,143397,61,60,143392,143394,143395,143393,143398,115,29133],"class_list":{"0":"post-303839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-brazilian-association-of-meat-exporting-industries","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-cepea","15":"tag-china","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-folha-de-s-paulo","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-jbs","21":"tag-marfrig","22":"tag-minerva","23":"tag-ministry-of-agriculture","24":"tag-secretariat-of-foreign-trade","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-uruguay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}