Japan to Resume US Beef Exports Halted by Mad Cow
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US beef exports valued at more than $1.7 billion last year will resume in a matter of weeks after Japan agreed to ease a 10-month ban on the meat prompted by a lone case of mad cow disease in Washington state.
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US beef exports to Japan are to resume soon under an agreement reached yesterday to ease a 10-month ban on the meat prompted by a case of mad cow disease in Washington state.
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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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Japan and the United States agreed on Saturday 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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President Bush will begin a second term barely a year after the United States had its first case of mad cow disease and as Japan and other countries maintain bans on U.S. beef.
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Investor's Business Daily - The president said he was disappointed that this week&#39;s economic talks failed to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. beef. China &quot;attaches importance&quot; to the resumption of U.S. beef imports, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. But the World Organization for Animal Health classifies the U.S. as a &quot;controlled risk&quot; country for mad cow disease.
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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.
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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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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 indicated on Tuesday that it was  nearing a decision on dropping its policy of testing all cattle  for mad-cow disease, a move likely to move forward efforts to  ease a nine-month-old ban on U.S. beef imports.
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WASHINGTON  - The United States said it will resume conditional imports of live Canadian cattle early next year, following a year-and-a-half hiatus caused by a case of mad cow disease discovered in Canada.
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TOKYO : Japan is set to propose the partial lifting of a ban on imports of American beef to United States authorities, a news report said.
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Talks on resuming US beef imports to Japan hit a new snag when Tokyo rejected Washington's proposals for determining the age of cows to be exempted from tests for mad cow disease, officials said.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Nearly two years after the United States shut down cattle imports from Canada after a case of mad cow disease was discovered there, the Department of Agriculture will reopen the door to imports that could lower the price of beef and
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Japan and the United States narrowed their differences over testing standards for mad cow disease but couldn't reach a deal on reopening Japanese markets to U.S. beef after three days of arduous talks that ended Saturday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday that he and U.S. President George W. Bush "see eye to eye" on the need for a quick resumption of their bilateral beef trade, but Japan wants more mad cow safety studies.
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South Korea, once the world's   third-largest export market for American beef, said on Friday   it would open its doors again to U.S. beef and end a three-year   ban imposed because of mad cow disease.