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Originally Posted by pip08456
So let me get this right. Australia has and still produces 28 million (tons?) of beef and it is all now coming to the UK. Does that include the year on year production for all the time we have been in the EU or just mean they are not going to sell to anyone else and just flood our market?
Australian production just as ours depends on the market available. They are producing for the already available market and would have to increase to supply us.
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By that reasoning, our shipbuilding, steel-making, coal mining, and textile making industries are all still thriving…
If they can make more profit selling here versus some of their existing markets (which may have price constraints/tariffs), why wouldn’t they? (for example, China has a 12% tariff on Oz beef, and exports to the China and the USA fell).
https://www.beefcentral.com/trade/20...illion-tonnes/
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The 28 million was also on page 1.
Your question is a difficult one to answer ahead of actuality. The matter is clouded by the retail mark up, which is a rather opaque affair, what with middlemen and Supermarket squeeze etc. I don't like protectionism as regards overseas trade.
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Could you clarify that, please, as I’m not sure what you mean?
Would the the supermarkets not be going for at least the same (if not more) mark up?