Global market conditions are not helped by lobby groups calling for increased tariffs on New Zealand lamb in a bid to help their struggling local industry. R-CALF USA, the largest body representing producers of cattle and sheep in the United States, said the sheep industry there has been decimated over the last three decades with an explosion of lamb and mutton from Australia and New Zealand pushing down returns for local producers. Currently New Zealand lamb exported to the US currently faces tariff rates of between 0.7 and 2.8 cents depending on the product.
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