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The U.S. and Mexican cattle and beef industries continue to integrate, building on a long history of trade between the two countries. 

For Bruno Dufayet, the latest round of trade talks between the European Union and the U.S. could sound the death knell for France’s small cattle farms.

With the final 2015 trade data in hand, it is possible to look back and summarize 2015 North American cattle trade. Limited cattle inventories, market conditions and exchange rates all played a part in 2015 cattle trade between the U.S. and Canada and suggest what might be expected in 2016. 

U.S. beef imports were down 35.2% in December at 186.2 million pounds.

Australian beef exports to China grow six-fold in three years.

Supporters of a prominent businessman and Muslim community leader packed a federal courtroom Friday to ask a judge to spare him prison time for committing fraud in exporting halal beef products to Malaysia and Indonesia.

The trade agreement might be one of the biggest opportunities to turn-around a sliding cattle market.

China halted imports of U.S. beef in 2003 after a case of mad cow disease was found in Washington state. Now, an industry group is predicting that China, the world’s biggest importer of U.S. agricultural goods, will open its market fully by the middle of this year.

Americans eat more meat per person than residents of almost any other country, but what meat they eat has evolved and will continue to adapt. “Our lifestyles and preferences have changed,” says John Nalivka, president of Sterling Marketing. “Most people don’t sit down and eat a 20-oz. steak anymore. Most of us are perfectly happy to have a quality 8-oz. steak."

Shares of JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer, plunged to a 15-month low after Brazil’s public prosecutor accused executives including Chairman Joesley Batista of financial crimes involving a series of loans made to related companies.

Beef exports gain momentum in most Asian markets, but decline continues in Japan.

The beef export market was down overall this past year after a strong dollar had countries looking to trade elsewhere. The strong dollar brought a flood of cheaper beef into the U.S., too.

The latest international trade data for November confirms that the trade picture for beef and cattle is recovering from the dramatic changes in recent months. 

November U.S. beef exports exceeded beef imports for the first month since February 2014.

 U.S. consumers will now find it harder to learn where their beef or pork was born, raised and slaughtered.

Saudi Arabia agreed to take a 20 percent stake in Minerva SA in a transaction that will raise as much as 1.56 billion reais ($390 million) for one of Brazil’s largest beef producers and help it gain better access to markets in the Middle East.

U.S. beef exports in October edged higher than they were in September, but were still down from a year ago.

Canadian trade officials are not taking retaliatory tariffs off the table until the U.S. moves to repeal country-of-origin labeling requirements for meat.

Congressional negotiators crafting a spending plan have agreed to a provision that would repeal country-of-origin labeling requirements for U.S. meat, an attempt to stave off $1 billion in Canadian and Mexican retaliation against American goods.

Ten registered American Red Brahman bulls found their new home at the Vietnamese National Breeding Center near Hanoi on Saturday, November 28. 

According to research done by the Nikkei Marketing Journal (Nikkei MJ), an industrial newspaper, released on November 30, 2015, U.S. beef was ranked as the fifth best among 35 beef brands surveyed.

One of Australia’s most iconic cattle companies, with ranches that span an area more than twice the size of Switzerland, is being broken up to clear the way for a foreign takeover,

The two groups that represent North Dakota's ranchers have different thoughts on whether Congress should change the "country of origin" meat-labeling rules or do away with them altogether.

Mexico has pledged to enact almost $228 million in punitive tariffs on U.S. apples, dairy, liquor and hygiene products, in retaliation for U.S. country-of-origin labels on packages of beef, pork and poultry.  

The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that Canada and Mexico can slap more than $1 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation for meat labeling rules it says discriminated against Mexican and Canadian livestock.

U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today highlighted a World Trade Organization (WTO) decision authorizing Canada and Mexico to place tariffs on over $1 billion of American-made goods.   

Canadians may soon pay less at the supermarket for steak.

U.S. beef exports endured the most difficult month in some time in September, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), contractor to the beef checkoff.

U.S. beef exports were down 24.9% in September compared to a year earlier with decreases in exports to all of our major foreign customers. 

China's building up their beef industry with cattle flown in from Australia.

August beef exports totaled 185.5 million pounds, down 18 percent from a year ago.

The Iowa Cattlemen’s Association supports the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. 

Herd rebuilding limits exports, but will pay off in years to come.

Breaking down China’s market access wall could be profitable for beef producers

International trade continues to be a drag on the U.S. beef market as the strong dollar and high U.S. beef prices make the U.S. an attractive market to sell into, but a less appealing place to buy from.  

Smuggler packaged meat as fish, nets $300 penalty.

To gain insight into the U.S. beef industry and learn more about prevention of animal disease and foodborne illnesses, a team of Japanese technical journalists recently toured the U.S. beef industry.

Beef exports strong to Korea and Taiwan, but most markets lower year-over-year.

Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the U.S. for the loss of almost $14,000 this year.

Fails to bring COOL law into compliance with international trade obligations.

As a result of combined efforts on behalf of the American Brahman Breeders Association, USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, APHIS and other cooperatives a live cattle shipment from the United States to Ecuador was made on May 20, 2015.

A Chinese billionaire purchased two cattle stations beside the Northern Territory-Queensland border in Australia for $34.62 million.

After an encouraging performance in April, exports of U.S. beef lost momentum in May.

Australia’s live cattle shipments to Indonesia are set to plunge this quarter after the biggest buyer cut its import quota by 80 percent to rely more on domestic supply.

Beef imports are up, while exports have fallen.

The latest international controversy is happening on your dinner plate. The question at issue: Do you have a right to know which country your steak came from?

China looks to be an emerging market for beef consumption; however the U.S. still remains banned from exporting to the country.

Argentina and Brazil are greeting news that they will soon be able to export fresh beef into the United States after a longtime ban.

Ruling from USDA APHIS risks the welfare of America’s cattle herd in exchange for political legacy.

Food writers from Japan are getting a taste of how beef is raised and eaten in the U.S. as part of a tour that included a 112-year-old Wyoming ranch.