Japan Won't Have U.S. Beef Anytime Soon
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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.
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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 has warned it does not rule out quitting the International Whaling Commission if the divided group does not allow whaling within several years.
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Hall of Fame major league baseball player Nolan Ryan will be visiting Japan this month in a new role -- to make a sales pitch for beef from the United States, now struggling to regain its former position as a top supplier.
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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.
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TOKYO (CP) - U.S. and Japanese negotiators struck a deal Saturday to allow  limited imports of U.S. beef into Japan but a Canadian beef industry spokesman called it a rehash of previous agreements and "election hype."
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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.
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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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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 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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10/23/04- Japan will soon import US beef again. This follows a tentative agreement between America and Japan to end a 10-month ban after concerns of Mad Cow Disease.
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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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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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The U.S. ambassador was among customers thronging a major Japanese fast-food chain Monday to savor the return of a popular rice dish topped with American beef that was off the menu for more than two years due to mad cow disease fears.
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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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Japan announced confirmation of its third case of mad cow disease this year, but a beef industry export official said he doesn&#39;t expect it to impact trade talks between Japan and the United States.
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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.