<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Australia has lifted remaining bans on beef imports from the US as the ongoing battle to secure an exemption from </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/donald-trump" rel="" target="_blank" title="Donald Trump's"><span>Donald Trump's</span></a><span> tariff regime continues.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Employment Minister Amanda Rishworth confirmed on </span><em><span>Today</span></em><span> that a decade-long review into the imports of US beef had been completed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"That review has been undertaken and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry believe that there are the right controls in place in the US to lift that ban," she said.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/corinne-mulholland-queensland-senator-maiden-speech-with-baby-in-arms/e96f4a8b-dedc-448d-ba1e-cad876518c4d" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Senator upstaged by adorable sidekick in maiden speech</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"My understanding is that will be lifted as a result of a decade-long review."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The removal of the ban was first reported by the </span><a href="https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pm-lifts-us-beef-ban-paves-way-for-trump-tariff-talks-20250723-p5mh32" rel="" target="_blank" title="Australian Financial Review"><em><span>Australian Financial Review</span></em></a><span>, quoting an anonymous government source.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>That source emphasised that Australia's biosecurity would remain uncompromised by the change, a stance Rishworth also took.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/us-beef-import-bans-to-australia-lifted-amid-tariff-battles/40996642-b0be-4352-b065-ea82ed960190" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/mercer-super-warns-members-about-potential-information-theft-after-australia-post-break-in/ae7a72da-e822-4091-9e21-b3ceaed96dbb" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Super fund's warning to customers after post office break-in</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are not we are not compromising on biosecurity. I need to make that very clear," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We believe in free and fair trade. And our farmers very much benefit from being able to export their products right around the world."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The revelation comes ahead of US President Donald Trump's proclaimed August 1 deadline for increased blanket tariffs on imports to the US.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-in-jeffrey-epstein-files-pam-bondi-told-him-reports-usa-politics/38dae500-44be-4daf-9e87-359b1a35d814" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Donald Trump told his name was in Epstein files: reports</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Australia is currently subjected to a baseline 10 per cent tariff on all US exports, including beef, with a 50 per cent tariff on steel and aluminium.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump has also threatened to increase the tariff on imported pharmaceuticals to 200 per cent.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The baseline tariff could as much as double to 20 per cent on the August 1 deadline, Trump warned in recent weeks.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In April, when rolling out his "Liberation Day" tariff plan, Trump singled out Australian beef.</span></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2025/07/23/10/03/today-in-history-july-24-what-happened-on-this-day"><img alt="" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/nfH9Al2utJ2CQvhGNZh-ujNaOa0=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Ff554bf2b-2e7e-4e0d-8cbf-4d1e4b235737" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/nfH9Al2utJ2CQvhGNZh-ujNaOa0=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Ff554bf2b-2e7e-4e0d-8cbf-4d1e4b235737 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/eA76VC_N2IGZKkYWH7rBXmZPQEI=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Ff554bf2b-2e7e-4e0d-8cbf-4d1e4b235737 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">With a jump from a cliff, two men changed thrillseeking</div><div class="styles__Button-sc-2o34ro-1 eBjlmW"><a class="styles__ButtonLink-sc-2o34ro-2 hqpklJ" href="/content/2025/07/23/10/03/today-in-history-july-24-what-happened-on-this-day">View Gallery</a></div></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Australia bans – and they're wonderful people, and wonderful everything – but they ban American beef," he said then.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Yet we imported $US3 billion of Australian beef from them just last year alone.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"They won't take any of our beef.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"They don't want it because they don't want it to affect their farmers and you know, I don't blame them but we're doing the same thing right now starting at midnight tonight, I would say."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A ban on beef imports from the US was put in place more than 20 years ago after an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, which can lead to fatal brain disease in humans.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The blanket ban was lifted in 2019 for cattle raised and slaughtered in the US, but remained for cattle that had been raised in Canda and Mexico, but slaughtered in and exported from the US.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's those latter bans which have now been lifted, after the review reportedly found the US had improved its tracking protocols.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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