Anti-Dumping Sheep Bill

A new tariff bill has been introduced aimed at protecting us sheep producers from imported lamb. R-CALF United Stock Growers of America CEO Bill Bullard provides an update on the legislation. He says it is of interest to them, because if it can happen in the sheep industry, it can happen in the cattle industry.

“We have been working for the last few years trying to get Congress and or the administration to take steps to provide relief to our US, sheep producers who have been decimated by unlimited imports from Australia and New Zealand. Congressman Mark Amodei from Nevada and Celeste, Malloy, Congresswoman from Utah, co-sponsored a bill that would impose a 30% tariff on all lamb and sheep products from Australia and New Zealand.”

He says, RCALF is working on a bill in the Senate for tariffs on cattle.

“We're also working on a Senate bill, and we also want to include tariffs for beef. We want both tariffs and tariff rate quotas. So not just a tariff to disincentivize over the unlimited imports in the United States. We want an actual quota limit that says that these countries can only import this volume, and therefore we will provide our domestic industry the space it needs to recover from the decades-long inundation of these unlimited imports.”

R-CALF USA’s is Bill Bullard.