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Canada Mulls Legal Challenge to U.S. Cattle Ban

15:06 EST Wednesday, March 02, 2005

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A disappointed Canadian government pledged on Wednesday to fight the ban on the export of young cattle to the United States following a court decision in Montana that held up plans to allow the cattle shipments.

"We're looking at every alternative right now, including the legal route, and I can assure you we're going to be standing by our cattle producers," International Trade Minister Jim Peterson told CBC television.

Wednesday's federal court decision in Montana put a temporary halt to the plans by the U.S. government to allow young Canadian cattle to come across the border starting on March 7.

The United States had banned all imports of Canadian cattle in May 2003, after Canada found its first domestic case of mad cow disease.
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