Japan, U.S. Agree Resumption of Some 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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American and Japanese negotiators agreed Saturday to ease a 10-month-old ban on American beef exports to Japan, a deal that will reopen the US beef industry&#39;s biggest overseas market to at least some products.
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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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Pending a final round of inspections, Taiwan has agreed to resume imports of U.S. beef and beef products, which were suspended because of concerns over mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Tuesday.
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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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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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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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MEXICO CITY - Mexico and Japan have signed a free-trade agreement that is expected to open a new market for Mexican fruit and vegetables and prompt Japanese factories to move here.
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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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Japanese and US officials wrapped up three days of talks Saturday to lift Tokyo&#39;s 10-month-old ban on imports of American beef, reportedly narrowing differences over testing standards for mad cow disease but failing to strike a deal.
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South Korea said Thursday that it will lower its quarantine standards this month over banned bone fragments in American beef shipments, paving the way for the resumption of U.S. beef imports.
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Washington - The US Department of Agriculture has approved a regulation that allows Canadian ranchers to resume exports of live cattle and more cuts of beef, although there is no date for when that will happen.
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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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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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WASHINGTON - The US Department of Agriculture on Wednesday said it will formally publish on Jan. 4 a regulation that would allow Canada to resume imports of young live cattle to the United States, as well as expanded types of beef.
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Trade talks on lifting the Japanese ban on US beef ended in Tokyo Saturday with some progress and pledges to talk again. A source close to the talks said the two sides reached
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Japan's lucrative market for U.S. beef, ruptured by mad cow disease worries, is likely to remain closed for the rest of this year, U.S. meat industry officials said on Thursday.