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Trump Withholds Origin of New 'Cheap Foreign Beef' as Ranchers and Farmers Sound the Alarm

President Donald Trump’s 300,000-metric-ton tariff-free beef import plan aims to lower U.S. beef prices, but unnamed foreign suppliers and rancher backlash are raising concerns over country-of-origin labeling and American cattle producers

President Donald Trump has ordered a fresh wave of tariff-free foreign beef into American supermarkets, yet he will not say where a single pound of it is coming from.

On Friday, 21 August 2026, Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States would accept up to 300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef trimmings over the next 90 days without the tariff normally charged once a country's import quota is exceeded.

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