Australia has agreed to open its market to U.S. beef, President Donald Trump said on Thursday, after the U.S. ally eased restrictions on imports that had angered the American leader. The Trump administration hailed the deal,

Australia announced it will reduce restrictions on U.S. beef imports in a move U.S. President Donald Trump's administration claimed as a major victory over “non-scientific trade barriers.”Agriculture Minister Julie Collins said Thursday that relaxing the restrictions designed to keep Australia free of mad cow disease,

Australia will lift restrictions on the import of beef from the US, a trade barrier which had angered the Trump administration. American beef has effectively been banned from the country - which has some of the strictest biosecurity laws in the world - since 2003 after an outbreak of mad cow disease.