Us Beef Off The Menu As Tariffs Hit Beijings Us-style Restaurants

At Home Plate BBQ, an American-style restaurant in Beijing, staff are reprinting menus.

The US-China trade war means American beef, once the star ingredient, will soon be off the table.

Home Plates beef, previously sourced entirely from the US, is increasingly Australian. The restaurant uses about 7 to 8 tons of brisket each month, and when the US beef in the freezers is used up in a few weeks, the southern-style BBQ restaurant will only serve meat from Australia.

US beef is one of thousands of casualties in the trade war between the worlds largest trading partners.

Even before the battle began, American beef was expensive. Beijings 125 retaliatory tariffs, on top of the existing 22, made it unaffordable.