Japan Warns Of Delays For U.S. Beef
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TOKYO, Oct. 26 -- Japanese opposition leaders and consumer groups this week criticized a tentative agreement to lift a ban on U.S. beef imports, calling it a political gift from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to President Bush before the U.S. election.
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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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Japan was warned Friday it risks international anger if it includes endangered humpbacks in its annual whale cull, after threatening to pull out of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission.
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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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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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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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TOKYO - US and Japanese negotiators struck a deal Saturday to allow limited imports of American beef into Japan for the first time since Tokyo closed its billion-dollar market last year over a mad cow disease scare.
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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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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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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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American and Japanese negotiators have agreed to ease Japan&#39;s ban on American beef exports, brought in after a single case of mad cow disease in the US last year.
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Negotiators struck a deal Saturday to allow limited imports of American beef into Japan for the first time since Tokyo closed its lucrative market late last year over fears of mad cow disease, Japanese and US officials said.
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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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Japan is set to agree on a resumption of  U.S. beef imports, suspended for five months due to concerns  about mad cow disease, when senior officials of the two  governments hold talks later on Tuesday, Japanese officials  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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Japan and the United States agreed on Saturday to resume imports of American beef from animals with birth records up to 20 months, Japan&#39;s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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A procedural misstep by the Bush  administration may require a delay in its plan to resume  imports of some beef and cattle from Canada on March 7, a U.S.  senator opposing the regulation said on Friday.