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Japan and US getting closer

Bill

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BREAKING NEWS
U.S., Japan reopen beef trade

by Pete Hisey on 6/21/2006 for Meatingplace.com


After two long negotiating sessions on Tuesday via videoconference, Japan and the United States reached an agreement last night that should deliver U.S. beef to the Japanese market by the end of July. Japanese inspectors will arrive in the United States on Saturday to begin about a month of inspections of U.S. plants.

The two governments had clashed over what Japan would do if the United States sends another shipment of beef with banned material, as it did last year with a shipment of veal that contained spinal material. Japan wanted to suspend the violating plant from further export; the United States held that the shipment should simply be returned and, for the moment, appears to have won that concession.

Under the agreement, Japan will be allowed to send inspectors along on USDA surprise inspections of exporting plants, and said it will carefully check every shipment of beef as it enters the country.
 
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