China's customs office will allow the immediate import of beef and beef by-products from Russia, including frozen tendons, hoofs, stomach, and cartilage, from cattle under 30 months old. This follows a trend of lifting beef import bans, similar to recent changes with Australian and German beef.

China's customs office will allow the import of some beef and beef by-products from Russia with immediate effect, according to a notice on its official WeChat media account.

It will allow imports of Russian beef from cattle under 30 months of age, it added, while permitting shipments of by-products including frozen beef tendons and hoofs, stomach and cartilage. Earlier, the Australian government said China had lifted bans on imports from five major Australian beef processing facilities.

This comes after China customs removed mad cow disease-related bans on some German beef imports in April.

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