Trump Team Pauses Effort to Lower Tariffs on Beef Imports

Beef cattle in a shed in Cheonan, South Korea.

Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg

The Trump administration has delayed a plan to suspend tariffs on beef imports, which had been part of its latest push to assuage Americans’ concerns about high consumer prices.

President Donald Trump was expected to sign a pair of executive actions on Monday intended to reduce the cost of beef, Bloomberg previously reported. But the administration is now fine-tuning potential directives aimed at alleviating temporary shortages in the domestic beef market, a White House official said.