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Agribusiness
Big drop in British beef and sheep output
Phelim O'Neill
Tight British and Irish supplies of beef and sheep meat opens the door wider for Australian and New Zealand imports.
23 April 2025 World
Market digest – stories from around the world
Brief news snippets from: United States, China, Paraguay and Australia
22 April 2025 Northern Ireland
Britain upgrades risk of foot-and-mouth incursion to medium
Further cases, particularly additional member states being infected, or a change in the epidemiological situation such as evidence of disease in wild animals, would cause the risk to increase to high.
Pause on US tariffs offers breathing space for Ireland
President Trump slashes tariffs announced last week for all trading partners, but goes the opposite way with China.
10 April 2025 News
US meat and dairy hit hard by China tariff retaliation
Apart from Canada, China is the only major US trading partner so far to retaliate
9 April 2025 News
Progress made to ‘protect’ Irish dairy and whiskey from tariffs - Harris
On Wednesday 2 April, US president Donald Trump announced 20% tariffs on American imports from the EU.
9 April 2025 News
Government’s failure to attend Mercosur meeting ‘unacceptable’ – Sinn Féin
The meeting, convened by France, included 10 European Union countries that have reservations against the deal.
9 April 2025 News
Strict import controls needed for used forestry machinery – IFA
The association hopes that these controls will ensure all imported used forestry machinery goes through strict biosecurity measures to stop the spread of harmful diseases.
4 April 2025 Forestry
Trump tariffs are what Brexit could have been
Tariff announcement by President Trump no worse than expected, but the impact will still be damaging for Irish exports.
4 April 2025 News
Countries increasingly working around Trump’s US
Trade pressure from the US is increasing cooperation between other countries.
2 April 2025 News
Heydon urges vigilance following foot-and-mouth outbreaks in Slovakia
No cattle, sheep or pigs have been imported into Ireland from Slovakia, Hungary or Germany since 1 January 2025.
21 March 2025 News
Mirror clauses in international trade
Production standard equivalence for imports is a regular point of friction in international trade.
28 February 2025 News