Agreement to Ease Ban on US Beef
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Japan agreed Saturday to resume imports of some American beef after a 10-month ban that shut United States cattle ranchers out of their most lucrative foreign market.
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TOKYO  - Japanese and U.S. officials wrapped up three days of talks  Saturday to lift Tokyo'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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Some restrictions on moving animals imposed after the latest foot-and-mouth case are to be eased in Wales.
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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 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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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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(CP) - President George W. Bush offered Saturday to throw his administration's full weight behind reopening the border to Canadian beef within several months.
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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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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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The United States has lifted an  eight-month ban on the import of French foie gras, hams and  other luxury cold meats, the French Agriculture Ministry said  on Sunday.
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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.
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: US and Japanese negotiators today reached a preliminary agreement to partially lift the 10-month-old ban on American beef exports to Japan within &quot;a matter of weeks&quot; and work toward ending
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The Bush administration announced Wednesday that it would permit limited imports of Canadian cattle early next year for the first time since May 2003, when a case of mad cow disease was discovered in an Alberta cow.
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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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US farmers given go-ahead to produce cloned meat for human food chain
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The sale of U.S. beef and pork company Swift & Co. to Brazil's JBS-Friboi  gives the Brazilian company access to the tightly controlled U.S. meat market, where uncooked Brazilian beef is banned, U.S. industry sources said.
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Canada would be allowed to resume exports of live cattle and additional types of beef to the United States under a regulation approved by the US Department of Agriculture, the agency said on Monday.