Average export value under the U.S. quota up 40% in 2025

With just over two weeks to go before the end of the first half of the year, Uruguay has already used 48% of its 20,000-ton duty-free beef quota with the United States. Amid a heated U.S. market — ahead of the tariff hike enacted by the Trump administration and with the lowest cattle stock in 70 years and beef and cattle prices soaring — Uruguayan exporters have capitalized on the situation.