CHANGES to COVID restrictions in China have seen imported beef trade through Chinese Ports become a lot easier over the past month.
Both Australian exporters and Chinese importers have commented on the development, with customs inspection and clearance times dropping from as much as two months previously, to one to two weeks since mid-January.
The result has been that the Chinese are actively buying Australian beef again, which was “a big turnaround from the back half of last year,” one export contact said this morning.
During 2020, China introduced onerous COVID risk assessment…
