# Australia remains free of lumpy skin disease despite Indonesia blocking cattle imports, officials say | Rural and regional Australia | The Guardian

> Australia remains free of lumpy skin disease, but Indonesia has demanded costly nose, mouth and blood tests on every cow from three export ports. The industry says the tests are unfeasible, effectively blocking cattle imports from those ports.

- Date: 2023-09-04 · published 2023-09-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region Australia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/34038-australia-remains-free-of-lumpy-skin-disease-despite-indonesia-blocking-cattle
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Indonesia's de facto import block reduces Australian cattle export demand, leaving more supply domestically and pressuring Australian cattle prices.

## Read by commodity

- LCATTLE: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2022-03-23 | [Australia's chief vet travels to Indonesia as urgent vaccine rollout begins for lumpy skin disease - ABC News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42218-australia-s-chief-vet-travels-to-indonesia-as-urgent-vaccine-rollout-begins-for.md) | +0.5% | +2.0% |
| LCATTLE | 2022-05-06 | [Foot-and-mouth disease detected in Indonesia; Australian livestock sector on alert - ABC News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41345-foot-and-mouth-disease-detected-in-indonesia-australian-livestock-sector-on.md) | -0.8% | -1.6% |
| LCATTLE | 2022-03-24 | [Western Australia’s live cattle trade could be ‘stopped overnight’ by lumpy skin disease, Littleproud warns \| Countryman](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42223-western-australia-s-live-cattle-trade-could-be-stopped-overnight-by-lumpy-skin.md) | +0.2% | +2.4% |
| LCATTLE | 2021-12-31 | [Weekly global protein digest: China's tariff adjustment, S. Korea suspends Canadian beef imports
						 \| The Cattle Site](https://feedsoft.ai/events/43550-weekly-global-protein-digest-china-s-tariff-adjustment-s-korea-suspends.md) | +0.8% | +0.2% |
| LCATTLE | 2022-06-09 | [SE Asia Report: FMD vaccine desperately needed to avert Indo catastrophe - Beef Central](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40869-se-asia-report-fmd-vaccine-desperately-needed-to-avert-indo-catastrophe-beef.md) | +1.0% | +2.0% |

## Sources

- theguardian.com: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/05/lumpy-skin-disease-australia-free-indonesia-cattle-imports

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