Double-digit declines go on for US beef exports, despite October ‘rebound’
The US Meat Export Federation (USMEF) has reported exports of beef from the US of just under 950,000 tonnes in the first ten months of 2025, bringing in revenues of almost $7.8 billion.
USMEF said these figures represented declines of 11% in volume and of 10% in value year on year.
It said, however, that excluding China from these results would make the comparison far less favourable for the 2025 figures. Without China, which the tariff situation has made a much more difficult market for US beef exporters, the results would have shown falls of 3% in volume and of only 1% in value.
The organisation said it was encouraged by October figures. Even these still showed declines year on year, there was a pick-up in volumes of beef exports compared to a low figure in September, with shipments of 93,448 tonnes. In terms of revenues, October’s figure, $759.5 million, was the highest since June. USMEF said the October figures showed “an encouraging rebound for beef”.
