Meat is so cheap in Argentina and Delicious!

Meat is so cheap in Argentina and it is delicious too. My friend Jose purchased $8 USD worth of beef. In the USA this amount of meat would be very expensive.
Argentina has the world's 2nd highest consumption rate of beef, with yearly consumption at 55 kilograms per person. In 2006, livestock farmers kept around 55 million head of cattle, mostly in the fertile pastures of the Pampas. Currently, Argentina is the 3rd largest beef exporter in the world after Brazil and Australia. The national government applies a 15% tax on beef exports and has applied further restrictions since March 2006 to keep domestic prices low.
On 8 March 2006, after unsuccessfully trying to control the rising prices of beef in the internal market (26% since the beginning of that year), the Argentine government banned beef exports for 180 days (with the exception of prearranged shipments). On 26 May, the ban was replaced by a quota, to be in force between June and November, equivalent to 40% of the amount of beef exported in the same period of 2005.
These measures met harsh criticism from livestock farmers, the meat processing industry, and the export sector. Some analysts have said that it will be useless in the long term and harm Argentina's international image, besides causing large monetary losses. Other analysts have said it is the only adequate measure that deals with inflation and that the industry is the only one in Argentina profitable enough to sustain such a policy.
In May 2021, the government decided to ban beef export for a month (except for the Hilton Quota). Prices of meat in Argentina increased faster than the inflation in recent years and the government would like to limit inflation as well as increasing supply for the domestic market. From June on, it then slightly opened up the market again to Israel, Chile and Colombia but it kept restrictions for the rest of 2021.
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