# Ranchers In The U.S. And Mexico Hope Tariffs Don't Get In The Way Of Beef Market : NPR

> President Trump threatened tariffs on all Mexican imports, due to take effect the following Monday. Nearly equal volumes of beef, roughly 500 million pounds a year, cross the US-Mexico border in each direction, and border livestock trade is highly integrated.

- Date: 2019-06-06 · published 2019-06-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/58565-ranchers-in-the-u-s-and-mexico-hope-tariffs-don-t-get-in-the-way-of-beef-market
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Tariffs on Mexican imports would disrupt the two-way cattle and beef flows, pressuring US feeder and live cattle prices and raising costs for Mexican buyers of US product.

## Read by commodity

- FCATTLE: bearish ▼
- LCATTLE: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2017-03-15 | [Mexico opens market to beef imports](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71965-mexico-opens-market-to-beef-imports.md) | +2.9% | +2.6% |
| LCATTLE | 2024-03-25 | [US removes tariffs on Australian, New Zealand beef \| Latest Market News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/31166-us-removes-tariffs-on-australian-new-zealand-beef-latest-market-news.md) | -1.8% | -2.3% |
| LCATTLE | 2025-04-03 | [Beefed-up tariffs leave global protein markets in a stew](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25246-beefed-up-tariffs-leave-global-protein-markets-in-a-stew.md) | -2.0% | +0.8% |
| LCATTLE | 2019-08-23 | [China to impose extra tariffs on U.S. soy, beef and pork](https://feedsoft.ai/events/57438-china-to-impose-extra-tariffs-on-u-s-soy-beef-and-pork.md) | +0.5% | -5.6% |
| LCATTLE | 2026-09-01 | [Cattle Prices Sink as Mexico Border Reopening Shakes U.S. Beef Markets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/17849-cattle-prices-sink-as-mexico-border-reopening-shakes-u-s-beef-markets.md) | -1.8% | -0.4% |
| FCATTLE | 2026-09-01 | [Cattle Prices Sink as Mexico Border Reopening Shakes U.S. Beef Markets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/17849-cattle-prices-sink-as-mexico-border-reopening-shakes-u-s-beef-markets.md) | +2.3% | +3.8% |
| FCATTLE | 2025-10-24 | [Fears of Mexico border reopening cap a brutal week for the cattle market - Pro Farmer](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22526-fears-of-mexico-border-reopening-cap-a-brutal-week-for-the-cattle-market-pro.md) | -4.4% | -6.2% |
| FCATTLE | 2026-08-25 | [Mexican cattle allowed in the U.S. after a yearlong ban : NPR](https://feedsoft.ai/events/17845-mexican-cattle-allowed-in-the-u-s-after-a-yearlong-ban-npr.md) | -3.6% | +1.1% |

## Sources

- npr.org: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730429618/ranchers-in-the-u-s-and-mexico-hope-tariffs-dont-get-in-the-way-of-beef-market

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