TheCattleSite Latest News: China
28 February 2020

CHINA - Focusing on top blade, rib fingers, hanging tender and other cuts used in popular hotpot dishes, USMEF recently partnered with one of China’s largest retail food chains to demonstrate the advantages of alternative cuts of US beef. Funded by...
25 February 2020

China lifted a 19-year import ban on US beef, giving the US farmers much broader access to China's rising market, which is also in accordance with the agreed phase one trade deal signed in January....
18 February 2020

In an effort to support purchases of US goods, the Chinese government will grant exemptions on 696 retaliatory tariffs, the most substantial tariff relief to be offered yet. ...
27 January 2020

CHINA - Last summer’s US beef burger promotions at two Shanghai Sam’s Club stores were so successful that USMEF expanded the activity to two more of China’s largest cities – Shenzhen and Beijing. ...
24 January 2020

CHINA - The US and China recently agreed to a phase one trade deal that aims to resolve the current trade war between the two countries. But that is just the latest development in longstanding and complicated US-Chinese trade disputes....
06 January 2020

CHINA - The year past was special for China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited. For the first time, Mengniu made it among Brand Finance's list of top 500 most valuable brands in the world. ...
24 December 2019

CHINA - Chinese authorities recently announced that the country would remove a ban on imports of Japan's deboned beef under 30 months old starting 19 December....
17 December 2019

CHINA - Introducing alternative cuts of US beef and pork to importers, restaurant operators and retailers from central China, USMEF partnered with the Xin Guo Hua Company for a series of cutting seminars in Shanghai and Hangzhou....
16 December 2019

CHINA - World milk production grew 1.6 percent in 2018 and is forecast to grow at 1.7 percent per year over the next decade, according to the Agricultural Outlook 2019-2028 released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
25 November 2019

CHINA - China's Mengniu Dairy on Monday reached an A$600 million ($407 million) deal to acquire a third Australian drinks brand. The company announced its newest purchase following the acquisitions of Australian dairy companies Burra foods and Bellamy's...
12 September 2019

CHINA - USMEF facilitated a roundtable meeting between US Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana) and representatives from China’s imported beef distribution and retail sector during the legislator’s recent visit to Beijing....
11 September 2019

CHINA - South Africa has begun exporting beef to China after the ban following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) early this year was lifted, as reported by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) yesterday....
30 August 2019

CHINA - China's tariff rate adjustment for Australian beef imports is essentially different from the World Trade Organisation's stipulation of trade remedy measures in the general sense, the Ministry of Commerce has said in a statement....
28 August 2019

CHINA - The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), which took effect in 2015, has achieved positive outcomes in goods and services trading, and has driven the growth of bilateral economic and trade relations, China's Commerce Ministry (MOFCOM)...
26 August 2019

CHINA - Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has released a plan to promote quality development of its dairy industry, aiming to see its large-scale dairy farms, with over 100 cows, account for more than 99 percent of the region's total by...
19 August 2019

CHINA - China has substantially increased beef imports from Australia in the first seven months of 2019, reaching the yearly imports quota under the free trade agreement between the two countries four months earlier than expected....

Join us at the first-ever Animal and Food Safety Alliance Conference at EuroTier China 2019 from 19 - 21 September in Qingdao....
14 August 2019

EuroTier China will include a comprehensive technical programme for all areas of the livestock sector. Event will offer a comprehensive overview of global topics and trends in modern animal husbandry - EuroTier China takes place in Qingdao from 19th to...
07 August 2019

CHINA - Working to educate culinary instructors in southern China about the quality and taste of US beef and pork, USMEF partnered with the USDA Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) in Guangzhou to host a "train the trainer" programme. ...
02 August 2019

CHINA - China's Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Company Limited announced Thursday the completion of the transaction of the acquisition of Westland Co-operative Dairy Company Limited, New Zealand's second-largest dairy co-operative....
01 August 2019

CHINA - South Africa has resumed beef exports to China after the latter lifted a ban that was imposed after an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in January....
11 July 2019

CHINA - The first batch of imported beef from Panama has entered the Chinese market, Shanghai customs office said Wednesday....
10 July 2019

CHINA - Chinese and German scientists are working together to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from raising livestock, China Daily reported Tuesday....
02 July 2019

CHINA - Relations between China and Canada are now once again being strained as the former announced that it would no longer be accepting beef and pork imports from the latter. ...
19 June 2019

CHINA - British beef could be served on Chinese dinner plates by the end of the year, following an agreement reached today between China and the UK....
10 June 2019

CHINA - Lanzhou beef noodles, a 200-year-old specialty of northwest China's Gansu province, will enter college canteens across China to help increase income of local rural residents....
04 June 2019

CHINA - Continuing its work to promote the quality and availability of US beef and pork to China’s retail, foodservice and Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional (HRI) sector, USMEF had a huge presence at this year’s SIAL China in Shanghai, one of the...
20 May 2019

CHINA - China settled on purchasing more Australian beef as the African swine fever cuts through its hog output which might result in a pork shortage. The country's imports of Australian beef ballooned by 66 percent to 72, 460 tons from January to April...