Japan prepares to lift ban on U.S. beef
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Japan is expected to approve a partial resumption of imports of U.S. beef this week, a news report said Saturday.
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South Korea lifted a suspension on imports of American beef from two U.S. meat companies Tuesday after the U.S. confirmed that three shipments meant for domestic consumption were exported by mistake, officials said.
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Taiwan, the sixth-largest buyer of US beef, agreed to resume importing the meat following a 10- month suspension prompted by a lone case of mad cow disease in Washington state, the US Department of Agriculture said.
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Analysts said the discovery of a human case of mad cow disease in Japan may hamper efforts to resume beef imports from the United States.
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TOKYO - Japan could stop testing newborn and younger cows for mad cow disease without posing a risk to public health, a special panel decided Monday, in a ruling that could influence talks to lift Tokyo&#39;s ban on American beef imports.
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Oct 26, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - US and Japanese negotiators have reached general agreement on steps for resuming their beef trade after a 10-month interruption caused by the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Washington state
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Japan and the United States on Saturday agreed in principle to resume US beef imports as early as next spring, although a final accord on specific conditions for lifting the ban was left to further negotiations.
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Japan reached a basic agreement with the United States to resume its imports of American beef, despite a mad cow disease scare, pending scientific studies to determine the age of cows.
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Canada is already positioned to benefit from an agreement US officials are touting as a breakthrough beef deal with Japan, says the Canadian Beef Export Federation.
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Japan is confident it can secure the votes needed to resume commercial trade in whale products and that this would be a step toward lifting a ban on hunting the marine giants, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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Japanese trade negotiators agreed yesterday to reopen their markets to US beef, 10 months after discovery of a single case of mad-cow disease in Washington state prompted Japan to ban American imports.
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Suspension of Canadian beef imports will be partially lifted by the Hong Kong government, which will resume processing applications with immediate effect, the Food and Environmental
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Japan agreed Saturday to resume imports of some American beef after a 10-month ban that shut United States cattle ranchers out of their most lucrative foreign market.
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U.S. and Japanese negotiators struck a deal Saturday to allow limited imports of American beef into Japan for the first time since Tokyo closed its billion-dollar market last year over a mad cow disease scare.
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WASHINGTON -- Pending a final round of inspections, Taiwan has agreed to resume imports of US beef and beef products, which were suspended because of concerns over mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Tuesday.
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TOKYO -- Japan and the United States agreed yesterday to resume imports of some American beef, halted since December after a case of mad cow disease in Washington state, but did not set a date for restarting trade.
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Tokyo -- Japan agreed Saturday to resume imports of some US beef after a 10- month ban that shut cattle ranchers in the United States out of their most lucrative foreign market.