Canada Sees U.S. Beef Market Opening Soon
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U.S. feedlots and packers could import Canadian cattle within months now that new U.S. rules aimed at guarding against mad cow disease are up for approval, Canadian Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell said on Saturday.
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U.S. beef that does not meet Japanese  safety regulations has been imported into the country and some  may have been already sold to consumers, the Japanese  government said on late on Saturday.
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US President George W. Bush said he told his budget office to ``expedite&#39;&#39; action on a proposal to allow cattle imports from Canada ``as soon as possible.
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New Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns began his tenure Monday by pledging to get American beef exports moving again to Japan, a lucrative market that has been closed to U.S. producers since the discovery of mad cow disease in this country in December 2003.
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Japan's decision on reopening its market  to U.S. beef will not be affected by the U.S. decision to  reduce its mad cow testing program, although Tokyo still wants  Washington not to do so, Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa  said on Friday.
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Canada's latest possible case of mad  cow disease is not expected to cause the United States to  rescind its plans to resume imports of Canadian live cattle, a  U.S. Department of Agriculture official said on Thursday.
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President Bush pledged on Tuesday to try to expedite the opening of US borders to Canadian beef as he sought to mend ties with Canada frayed by the Iraq
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns  will defend an administration plan to reopen the border to  Canadian cattle at a Senate hearing on Thursday, where he will  face questions about whether the action will expose the U.S.  beef industry to more cases of mad cow disease.
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South Korea is unlikely to resume beef imports from Canada anytime soon despite stricter rules imposed by the exporter because buyers are still not convinced that supplies are safe, a Korean official said on Monday.
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Only hours after the US Department of Agriculture announced plans to lift the ban on the importation of Canadian cattle and beef products, a Canadian agency said they were investigating a new suspected case of &#39;Mad Cow&#39; disease.
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South Korea will resume imports of U.S.  beef to what once had been the third-largest overseas market  for the American product, the agriculture ministry official  said in a statement on Friday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Federal officials have confirmed Canada's second case of mad cow disease in 10 days - a development that could threaten U.S. plans to reopen the border to Canadian beef.
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann  Veneman on Tuesday said she did not foresee a scenario that  would stop imports of Canadian cattle resuming on March 7 as  planned.
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Consumers are expected to keep eating beef in the wake of the largest beef recall in history, just as they did when the United States reported its first case of mad cow disease in late 2003, two economists said on Tuesday.
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Canada's cattle and beef industries, battered by the discovery of mad cow disease in 2003, would win new access to the important U.S. market by this spring under a plan Washington announced on Wednesday to relax a trade ban.
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TOKYO - US beef exports to Japan, valued at more than US$1.7 billion last year, will resume in a matter of weeks after Tokyo agreed to ease a 10-month ban on the meat brought by a lone case of mad cow disease in Washington state.
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Australia&#39;s chief commodities forecaster, the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics, said Monday livestock exports will be nudged higher in the current economic year as overseas markets retain their appetite for Australian beef and lamb.