Tesco has no plans to source American beef Tesco sources 100% Irish and British beef15 May 2025 15 May 2025 1 minute read 1 minute read By: By: Global Ag Media Europe North AmericaTesco, Britain's biggest supermarket group, has no plans to source American beef despite last week's US-UK trade deal giving the product access to the UK market, reported Reuters. The deal gave US farmers a quota of 13,000 metric tonnes for beef which meets UK standards, with UK farmers having the same quota for sales into the United States. 2 player Sainsbury's, which has 15% of the market, similarly sources all of its beef from Britain and Ireland. Last week, US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins hailed American beef as "the safest, the best quality and the crown jewel of American agriculture" and predicted the trade deal would "exponentially increase" US beef exports to Britain. However, with little difference between prices of British-produced beef and US beef that does meet UK standards, the US product could struggle to find a UK market.