The Australian beef industry looks towards resuming China trade after COVID-19 bans

The fallout from COVID-19 in 2020 caused Australian borders to slam shut, hitting the beef industry with disrupted supply chains and a shock export ban from China. Four years on from the pandemic’s beginning, has the industry found its feet in a changed market or do lingering COVID scars remain? In May 2020, China banned beef imports from four Australian abattoirs - pausing an estimated 35 per cent of the country’s beef exports into China. By September 2021, a total of eight beef processors had been banned, with China citing “labelling non-compliance and COVID-19 complications”. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs…