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Beef industry slams US quota decision
8 Jul 2004
The Australian Meat Industry Council has criticised the decision last week by the Federal Agriculture Minister to continue with US beef quota arrangements for the rest of the current trading year. AMIC's national Export Beef Council chairman Alan Teys said the decision to not suspend company-based allocations under the 2004 US Beef Quota Scheme is a "disappointing response". The industry appears to have "moved from 40 years of quota management where any doubt that we would fill the quota meant no controls, to the reverse". This is the result the industry has worked so hard to avoid, he stated.
June shipment figures for beef to the US were at 33,400 tonnes, well below the 39,000 tonnes a month required to fill the quota - and continuing to support the industry's position. Mr Teys said in the light of the latest export statistics, industry advice should be reconsidered.
Queensland Country Life, 8/7/04.
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