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The Star
4 days ago
- Business
- The Star
Economists doubt Trump outlook that US will sell 'so much' beef to Australia
WASHINGTON/CANBERRA/CHICAGO: President Donald Trump said the US will sell "so much" beef to Australia after Canberra relaxed import restrictions on Thursday(July 24), but economists and traders said high prices and tight supplies make major American exports unlikely. Australia said it would loosen biosecurity rules for US beef. The move will not significantly increase US shipments, though, because Australia is a major beef producer and exporter whose prices are much lower, analysts said. US companies export small quantities of beef to Australian buyers. They import much more in the form of lean beef used to make hamburgers, particularly as US production has declined because of tight cattle supplies. US beef prices set records this year after ranchers slashed their herds due to drought that burned up pasturelands used for grazing. The total herd size fell to 94.2 million head as of July 1, a record low for that date, according to US Department of Agriculture data on Friday. A ban on cattle imports from Mexico because of New World screwworm, a devastating livestock pest, and steep tariffs on Brazilian beef that are set to take effect on Aug. 1 could further tighten meat supplies, and require additional imports of Australian beef. "We can't get enough beef in the US right now, so we're bringing it in from Australia and Brazil," said Dan Norcini, an independent US livestock trader. "We're not going to be selling anything significant to anyone." Last year, Australia shipped almost 400,000 metric tonnes of beef worth US$2.9 billion to the United States, with just 269 tonnes of US product moving the other way. "They have more cattle than people," said David Anderson, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University. "That's why they export so much." US and Australian beef also taste different. Many Australians like the grass-fed beef raised there, not marbled beef from US-raised cattle that are generally fed with grain, said Jerry Klassen, chief analyst for Resilient Capital in Winnipeg. He predicted the United States will not export substantial amounts of beef to Australia in the next five years. "We just aren't in a position to export much beef to anyone, and the reality is Australia doesn't really have much need for US beef," said Karl Setzer, partner at Consus Ag. The barriers that remain to exporting significant volumes of US beef to Australia appeared to be lost on Trump this week. "We are going to sell so much to Australia because this is undeniable and irrefutable Proof that US Beef is the Safest and Best in the entire World," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. "The other Countries that refuse our magnificent Beef are ON NOTICE." Trump has attempted to renegotiate trade deals with numerous countries he says have taken advantage of the United States, a characterisation many economists dispute. "For decades, Australia imposed unjustified barriers on US beef," US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement, calling Australia's decision a "major milestone in lowering trade barriers and securing market access for US farmers and ranchers." Australian officials say the relaxation of restrictions was not part of any trade negotiations but the result of a years-long assessment of US biosecurity practices. Canberra has restricted US beef imports since 2003 due to concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. Since 2019, it has allowed in meat from animals born, raised and slaughtered in the US but few suppliers were able to prove that their cattle had not been in Canada and Mexico. The US sources some of its feeder cattle from the two neighbouring countries. On Wednesday, Australia's agriculture ministry said US cattle traceability and control systems had improved enough that Australia could accept beef from cattle born in Canada or Mexico and slaughtered in the United States. The decision has caused some concern in Australia, where biosecurity is seen as essential to prevent diseases and pests from ravaging the farm sector. "We need to know if (the government) is sacrificing our high biosecurity standards just so Prime Minister Anthony Albanese can obtain a meeting with US President Donald Trump," shadow agriculture minister David Littleproud said in a statement. Australia faces a 10 per cent across-the-board US tariff, as well 50 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium. Trump has also threatened to impose a 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals. Asked whether the change would help achieve a trade deal, Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell said: "I'm not too sure." "We haven't done this in order to entice the Americans into a trade agreement," he said. "We think that they should do that anyway." - Reuters
Hindustan Times
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Princess Iman Pahlavi ties the knot in Paris. First pics from dreamy wedding
Iman Pahlavi, granddaughter of the last Shah of Iran, has tied the knot in Paris. Iman married her United States-based boyfriend Bradley Sherman in a dreamy wedding in the French capital, according to a report in English-language Iranian news website Kayhan Life. The couple had formally registered their marriage at the Manhattan Marriage Registry Office in New York last month. Their court marriage was attended only by close family members, including Iman's father Reza Pahlavi, the former Crown Prince of Iran. Following the intimate celebration in New York, Iman and Bradley hosted a lavish wedding for friends and family members in Paris. For her big day, the bride wore a lacy white wedding gown from designer Elie Saab. First photographs from the celebration – which included a gigantic cake – began to surface on social media yesterday. Iman shared them on her Instagram Stories. Iman Pahlavi is the second daughter of Iran's former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and Yasmine Pahlavi. She was born in Washington DC in 1993. A US-raised royal, she attended Bullis School in Maryland and earned a BA in Psychology and Communications from the University of Michigan in 2015. Iman is the granddaughter of Iran's last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who ruled until 1979, when the Iranian Revolution led to his overthrow, the abolition of the monarchy, and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. After being overthrown, the Shah travelled to several countries before eventually arriving in the United States. She is the daughter of the eldest son of the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, who was named crown prince upon his birth. According to the report in Kayhan Life, Iman and Bradley met through mutual friends in 2017. The couple announced their engagement in 2023, after Bradley went down on one knee for a romantic beach proposal. A post shared by Iman Pahlavi (@imanp) Iman Pahlavi currently works as a Senior Manager with American Express in New York. Details about the groom are scarce - but Tatler, quoting Vanity Fair Spain, said that he is employed by an e-commerce company. (Also read: Princess Aisha of Jordan marries Georgetown University graduate in lavish palace wedding)
Khaleej Times
23-02-2025
- Khaleej Times
'Worst is over' as Chile's 'stolen' babies reunite with mothers
Four decades after they were cruelly forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother fell into each other's arms Saturday at the airport in Santiago, Chile. Without speaking, they embraced tearfully: A rare reunification for one the thousands of Chileans taken from their mothers as babies and given up for adoption abroad. "The worst is over," Edita Bizama, 64, said as she beheld her daughter for the first time since her birth 41 years ago. Garcia had flown to Santiago with four other women born in Chile and adopted in the United States. Reports have estimated there were 20,000 such cases from 1950 to 1990 -- most of them during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Garcia lives in Puerto Rico, where she works in the financial sector. On her way to reunite with her biological family, she spoke to AFP at a hotel in Houston. She broke down in tears as she recounted how, as a child, she accidentally found out she was adopted, and then tried for years to shelve the knowledge, before finally making peace with it. "I am fortunate. I have my mom and dad (in the United States), and now I have another mom and three brothers" in Chile, she said. Last October, a DNA test confirmed her origins and Garcia arranged to meet her birth mom through the foundation Connecting Roots, which has so far reconnected 36 Chilean women with children taken from them against their will. - 'Trickery, threats and coercion' - Infants were taken from their mothers in Chile in a money-making scheme involving doctors, social workers and judges, according to investigations into the matter. They were delivered to foreign adoptive parents, in some cases for as much as $40,000. "How were these children taken? Some were (falsely) declared dead at birth, others were stolen from hospitals and institutions or taken from mothers who were manipulated and pressured into giving them up for adoption through trickery, threats and coercion," Connecting Roots vice president Juan Luis Insunza told AFP. Before Saturday's reunion, Bizama recounted how she was bullied into giving up her newborn daughter by a social worker who told her she could not adequately care for another child. She was 23 years old at the time, with two other children and a job as a domestic worker, she told AFP in her home city of San Antonio, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Santiago. The father of the child had left her. "Then they took the baby, and once everything (the paperwork) was done, they sent me away... I left, looking around, not knowing what to do. I wanted to run and find my baby, but it was already done." Bizama said she "never forgot" about Adamary, even though she did not know even her name. "She was always here in my mind, in my heart. That's why now I call her 'daughter of my heart'." For Garcia, whose search started last year after she read an article about baby thefts in Chile, "it has been complex to process this new reality," in which she regards both her birth and adoptive mothers as victims. But from the first video call with Bizama, she said, she felt "only love." - 'Out of the blue' - In Coconut Creek, Florida, the apartment of Adamary's adoptive mother Doria Garcia's abounds with photos of her daughter at different ages. The 80-year-old Cuban-American told AFP how in 1984, she traveled to Chile to receive her three-month-old daughter, after completing "the usual procedures." "I have her little face ingrained in my memory: when they handed her to me, smiling," the retired medical assistant recalled. "And when I held her in my arms, I swear it felt like my heart was bursting." With pride she describes her daughter as a professional with a good job, but above all "happy." It was through Adamary's journey that she learned about Chile's stolen babies, she said, and expressed gratitude that her daughter has found a "family that, out of the blue, appears when she's already 41 years old."
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Yahoo
'Worst is over' as Chile's 'stolen' babies reunite with mothers
Four decades after they were cruelly forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother fell into each other's arms Saturday at the airport in Santiago, Chile. Without speaking, they embraced tearfully: A rare reunification for one the thousands of Chileans taken from their mothers as babies and given up for adoption abroad. "The worst is over," Edita Bizama, 64, said as she beheld her daughter for the first time since her birth 41 years ago. Garcia had flown to Santiago with four other women born in Chile and adopted in the United States. Reports have estimated there were 20,000 such cases from 1950 to 1990 -- most of them during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Garcia lives in Puerto Rico, where she works in the financial sector. On her way to reunite with her biological family, she spoke to AFP at a hotel in Houston. She broke down in tears as she recounted how, as a child, she accidentally found out she was adopted, and then tried for years to shelve the knowledge, before finally making peace with it. "I am fortunate. I have my mom and dad (in the United States), and now I have another mom and three brothers" in Chile, she said. Last October, a DNA test confirmed her origins and Garcia arranged to meet her birth mom through the foundation Connecting Roots, which has so far reconnected 36 Chilean women with children taken from them against their will. - 'Trickery, threats and coercion' - Infants were taken from their mothers in Chile in a money-making scheme involving doctors, social workers and judges, according to investigations into the matter. They were delivered to foreign adoptive parents, in some cases for as much as $40,000. "How were these children taken? Some were (falsely) declared dead at birth, others were stolen from hospitals and institutions or taken from mothers who were manipulated and pressured into giving them up for adoption through trickery, threats and coercion," Connecting Roots vice president Juan Luis Insunza told AFP. Before Saturday's reunion, Bizama recounted how she was bullied into giving up her newborn daughter by a social worker who told her she could not adequately care for another child. She was 23 years old at the time, with two other children and a job as a domestic worker, she told AFP in her home city of San Antonio, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Santiago. The father of the child had left her. "Then they took the baby, and once everything (the paperwork) was done, they sent me away... I left, looking around, not knowing what to do. I wanted to run and find my baby, but it was already done." Bizama said she "never forgot" about Adamary, even though she did not know even her name. "She was always here in my mind, in my heart. That's why now I call her 'daughter of my heart'." For Garcia, whose search started last year after she read an article about baby thefts in Chile, "it has been complex to process this new reality," in which she regards both her birth and adoptive mothers as victims. But from the first video call with Bizama, she said, she felt "only love." - 'Out of the blue' - In Coconut Creek, Florida, the apartment of Adamary's adoptive mother Doria Garcia's abounds with photos of her daughter at different ages. The 80-year-old Cuban-American told AFP how in 1984, she traveled to Chile to receive her three-month-old daughter, after completing "the usual procedures." "I have her little face ingrained in my memory: when they handed her to me, smiling," the retired medical assistant recalled. "And when I held her in my arms, I swear it felt like my heart was bursting." With pride she describes her daughter as a professional with a good job, but above all "happy." It was through Adamary's journey that she learned about Chile's stolen babies, she said, and expressed gratitude that her daughter has found a "family that, out of the blue, appears when she's already 41 years old." burs-ps/mlr/acb
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Yahoo
'Worst is over' as Chile's 'stolen' babies reunite with mothers
Four decades after they were cruelly forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother fell into each other's arms Saturday at the airport in Santiago, Chile. Without speaking, they embraced tearfully: A rare reunification for one the thousands of Chileans taken from their mothers as babies and given up for adoption abroad. "The worst is over," Edita Bizama, 64, said as she beheld her daughter for the first time since her birth 41 years ago. Garcia had flown to Santiago with four other women born in Chile and adopted in the United States. Reports have estimated there were 20,000 such cases from 1950 to 1990 -- most of them during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Garcia lives in Puerto Rico, where she works in the financial sector. On her way to reunite with her biological family, she spoke to AFP at a hotel in Houston. She broke down in tears as she recounted how, as a child, she accidentally found out she was adopted, and then tried for years to shelve the knowledge, before finally making peace with it. "I am fortunate. I have my mom and dad (in the United States), and now I have another mom and three brothers" in Chile, she said. Last October, a DNA test confirmed her origins and Garcia arranged to meet her birth mom through the foundation Connecting Roots, which has so far reconnected 36 Chilean women with children taken from them against their will. - 'Trickery, threats and coercion' - Infants were taken from their mothers in Chile in a money-making scheme involving doctors, social workers and judges, according to investigations into the matter. They were delivered to foreign adoptive parents, in some cases for as much as $40,000. "How were these children taken? Some were (falsely) declared dead at birth, others were stolen from hospitals and institutions or taken from mothers who were manipulated and pressured into giving them up for adoption through trickery, threats and coercion," Connecting Roots vice president Juan Luis Insunza told AFP. Before Saturday's reunion, Bizama recounted how she was bullied into giving up her newborn daughter by a social worker who told her she could not adequately care for another child. She was 23 years old at the time, with two other children and a job as a domestic worker, she told AFP in her home city of San Antonio, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Santiago. The father of the child had left her. "Then they took the baby, and once everything (the paperwork) was done, they sent me away... I left, looking around, not knowing what to do. I wanted to run and find my baby, but it was already done." Bizama said she "never forgot" about Adamary, even though she did not know even her name. "She was always here in my mind, in my heart. That's why now I call her 'daughter of my heart'." For Garcia, whose search started last year after she read an article about baby thefts in Chile, "it has been complex to process this new reality," in which she regards both her birth and adoptive mothers as victims. But from the first video call with Bizama, she said, she felt "only love." - 'Out of the blue' - In Coconut Creek, Florida, the apartment of Adamary's adoptive mother Doria Garcia's abounds with photos of her daughter at different ages. The 80-year-old Cuban-American told AFP how in 1984, she traveled to Chile to receive her three-month-old daughter, after completing "the usual procedures." "I have her little face ingrained in my memory: when they handed her to me, smiling," the retired medical assistant recalled. "And when I held her in my arms, I swear it felt like my heart was bursting." With pride she describes her daughter as a professional with a good job, but above all "happy." It was through Adamary's journey that she learned about Chile's stolen babies, she said, and expressed gratitude that her daughter has found a "family that, out of the blue, appears when she's already 41 years old." burs-ps/mlr/acb
