Japan Closer to Lifting U.S. Beef Ban
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Japan moved a step closer to partially lifting a ban on U.S. beef imports after a government panel on Tuesday accepted U.S. assurances that a specific grade of U.S. beef would be free of mad cow disease.
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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's ban on American beef imports.    Japan shut its doors to U.S...
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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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Australia&#39;s domination of the export beef trade in Japan is likely to end after weekend moves in Tokyo to allow renewed access to United States producers.
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TOKYO (DTN) -- Here&#39;s the good news on the high-level US-Japan mad cow talks last week in Tokyo: Japan (in principle) will lift a ban on US beef that was put in place last December after the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was
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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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Japan and the U.S. will hold a two-day technical meeting on U.S. beef imports, officials said Monday, amid expectations the talks may pave the way for easing Japan's strict import restrictions.
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Japanese and US officials in Tokyo have reached a framework agreement that should permit the resumption of beef trade between the two countries.
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The Bush administration is moving ahead with plans to allow the importation of live cattle and beef from Canada despite two new cases of mad cow disease in Alberta.
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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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Ten months after imposing a ban on imports of US beef because a cow died of brain fever in Washington state, Japan this weekend announced it had agreed to partially rescind the ban.
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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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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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Japan and the United States agreed on Saturday to resume imports of American beef from animals with birth records up to 20 months, Japan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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Exports to Japan to resume under an agreement to ease a 10-month ban prompted by a case of mad cow disease in Washington state.
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Talks on resuming American beef imports to Japan are not expected to be affected even if the United States confirms a new case of mad cow disease, officials at Japan&#39;s health and farm ministries said on Friday.
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Cattle exports from Canada to the US -- banned in May 2003 because of mad cow disease -- will resume as early as March under a rule unveiled today by the US Department of Agriculture.