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NCBA Wants Halt To S. Korean

HAY MAKER

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NCBA Wants Halt To S. Korean
Beef Imports As Retaliation

WASHINGTON —(AP)— Cattle ranchers want the U.S. government to halt beef trade with South Korea because the country is blocking shipments from a meatpacker in the state of Kansas.

In a letter to the Bush administration on Friday, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association said, ``It is clear that commercially viable beef trade can't take place with South Korea.''

The group's president, Missouri rancher Mike John, said trade should not resume without assurance from South Korea that it will follow agreed-upon rules for trade.

Recently, South Korea suspended imports from Creekstone Farms Premium Beef because authorities said they found a bone fragment in boneless beef. Creekstone raises Black Angus cattle in Kentucky and slaughters them in Kansas. South Korea banned shipments from another processor last week, also citing bone chips.

American beef shipments had resumed only recently, after lengthy negotiations with South Korea, which banned U.S. beef after the discovery of “mad cow” disease in 2003 in Washington state.

The Agriculture Department intends to keep negotiating, a spokeswoman said.

``It is our intention to continue to work with South Korea in an effort to establish reasonable standards and tolerances for the trading of beef, just as we have done with so many of our trading partners,'' said Agriculture Department spokeswoman Terri Teuber.

The country was a major buyer of U.S. beef, purchasing more than $1.2 billion in beef products in the year before the ban, according to the Agriculture Department. Only Japan was a bigger market, worth $1.4 billion annually until closing its market due to mad cow disease.

Both countries have agreed to accept only boneless beef from the United States because some Asian countries consider bone to carry a greater risk for mad cow disease. That is stricter than international rules, which deem many bone-in cuts of beef to be safe.

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has harshly criticized South Korea, arguing that officials there had ``invented'' a standard for imports.

``They have applied a standard we did not agree to. It was a standard that they invented along the way,'' Johanns said Tuesday in Washington.

He said the shipment was seven tons of beef and that the bone fragment was actually a small piece of cartilage.
 

Econ101

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``They have applied a standard we did not agree to. It was a standard that they invented along the way,'' Johanns said Tuesday in Washington. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Sandhusker

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Econ101 said:
``They have applied a standard we did not agree to. It was a standard that they invented along the way,'' Johanns said Tuesday in Washington. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Reminds me of inventing a "Minimal Risk" category and a "sound science" requirement along the way. Looks to me that the Koreans learned from the USDA.
 
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Anonymous

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What happened to your defense of Creekstone Sandcheska?

Because NCBA supports Creekstone, now you question the antics? Haha!

You're such a damn hypocrite.


~SH~
 

Sandhusker

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~SH~ said:
What happened to your defense of Creekstone Sandcheska?

Because NCBA supports Creekstone, now you question the antics? Haha!

You're such a damn hypocrite.


~SH~

The antics I question are the USDA's. I also question NCBA for their usual rubber stamp approval when those antics cost US producers money.
 
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Anonymous

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Sandcheska: "I also question NCBA for their usual rubber stamp approval when those antics cost US producers money."

You have no proof that USDA's antics cost US producers money. That's just more blamer bullsh*t!

You have absolutely no proof that Japan would have accepted fraudulent bse testing on cattle under 24 months of age. It's all blamer bullsh*t!


~SH~
 

Econ101

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Des Moines meat processor calls rejection of beef unfair

22,500 pounds sit in cold storage after South Korea says it found bone fragments



By PHILIP BRASHER

DES MOINES REGISTER WASHINGTON BUREAU

December 8, 2006

Iowa (IA), US



Washington, D.C. — A Des Moines meat processor accused the South Koreans of acting unfairly in blocking a shipment of beef from the company.



Iowa Pacific Processors Inc. has found itself caught in a dispute between the United States and South Korean governments over trade. South Korea was once the third-largest market for U.S. beef.



South Korean government officials reported finding bone fragments in the beef, but the material was actually connective tissue that was not prohibited by South Korea's import rules, said Michael Everett, president of Iowa Pacific.



"This is a pretty direct sign that the Korean government, even though they opened their market to U.S. beef, has pretty much made their mind up that they really aren't going to be a fair trading partner," Everett said Thursday.



The 22,500 pounds of beef were X-rayed for bone fragments before the product was shipped and again when they reached South Korea, he said.



The periosteum tissue found by the South Koreans was less thick than a sheet of paper, Everett said. Such tissue, commonly found in many beef cuts, is the material that gets stuck in teeth when eating ribs, he said.



The National Library of Medicine defines the periosteum as "a fibrous sheath that covers bones. It contains the blood vessels and nerves that provide nourishment and sensation to the bone."



The South Korean government issued a news release on Wednesday identifying the fragments "as thin-sliced bone, including periosteum," according to a translation provided by the U.S. Meat Export Federation. The release said the material was reviewed by experts in meat science and veterinary medicine.



The Iowa Pacific product was the third shipment of American beef, all of which have been rejected, since South Korea ended a ban imposed after the first U.S. case of mad cow disease three years ago.



Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said the South Korean actions appeared designed to block U.S. beef sales.



Everett said the material could have been removed from the beef had his company known the South Koreans would object.



"What they are looking for is bone fragments, solid bone. What they have done is changed the rules in the middle of the game," he said.



The Iowa Pacific shipment to South Korea, which is worth more than $100,000, contained boneless ribs, tenderloins, rib-eye steaks and other cuts. The meat remains in cold storage in South Korea. The shipment, which arrived last week, was handled by a second company, Lee Enterprises Inc. of Denver, Colo., that was to distribute the meat to Korean buyers.



The whims of international trade have affected Iowa Pacific before. The 45-employee company specialized in supplying Japanese restaurants until Japan banned U.S. beef in 2003. In July, Japan re-approved exports from Iowa Pacific and 33 other meatpackers.



"In exports, details become very difficult sometimes," said Joe Cordray, a meat scientist at Iowa State University who advises processors on regulatory compliance. Exports have been rejected because the label was not placed properly on a box, he said.



South Korea purchased $815 million worth of U.S. beef in 2003. Half of those exports were beef ribs.



Telephone calls to the South Korean Embassy in Washington seeking comment on the trade dispute were not returned Thursday.



The National Cattlemen's Beef Association asked the U.S. Agriculture Department last week to cease approving beef exports to South Korea until the dispute is resolved.



desmoinesregister.com
 

don

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it seems the rest of the world knows the usa has bse and has run a bogus testing program. americans are the only ones in denial.
 

Mike

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don said:
it seems the rest of the world knows the usa has bse and has run a bogus testing program. americans are the only ones in denial.

I don't deny the testing program is a farce. :wink:

Linda Detwiler wouldn't either.
 

Sandhusker

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~SH~ said:
Sandcheska: "I also question NCBA for their usual rubber stamp approval when those antics cost US producers money."

You have no proof that USDA's antics cost US producers money. That's just more blamer bullsh*t!

You have absolutely no proof that Japan would have accepted fraudulent bse testing on cattle under 24 months of age. It's all blamer bullsh*t!


~SH~

They would ask for something they wouldn't accept? OK, SH. I think you need your nap.
 

Econ101

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Mike said:
don said:
it seems the rest of the world knows the usa has bse and has run a bogus testing program. americans are the only ones in denial.

I don't deny the testing program is a farce. :wink:

Linda Detwiler wouldn't either.


Truth should not be ignored. It should alter our previous ignorance.

I wish the USDA was more interested in protecting the food supply than corporate profits. We would all eat with more safety.
 

Jason

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Can you guys say non-tarriff trade barrier?

Korea wanted to be allowed to certify which plants they would take beef from. That wasn't allowed so the Koreans are doing it in reverse 1 plant at a time.

Their actions show they would use any loophole in any trade agreement they sign to get concessions.

Funny that sounds like what Americans usually do... I wonder where the Koreans learned that tactic from?
 

Sandhusker

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Jason said:
Can you guys say non-tarriff trade barrier?

Korea wanted to be allowed to certify which plants they would take beef from. That wasn't allowed so the Koreans are doing it in reverse 1 plant at a time.

Their actions show they would use any loophole in any trade agreement they sign to get concessions.

Funny that sounds like what Americans usually do... I wonder where the Koreans learned that tactic from?

If they're the ones signing the check, shouldn't they get what the want?
 

Econ101

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Jason said:
Can you guys say non-tarriff trade barrier?

Korea wanted to be allowed to certify which plants they would take beef from. That wasn't allowed so the Koreans are doing it in reverse 1 plant at a time.

Their actions show they would use any loophole in any trade agreement they sign to get concessions.

Funny that sounds like what Americans usually do... I wonder where the Koreans learned that tactic from?

I think if their bargaining gets them the food safety the US has failed to provide, they are right in demanding those concessions. Obviously they do too.

It still hasn't helped our sales.
 

Jason

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Sandhusker said:
Jason said:
They want unfettered access to the US market for their exports.

Go ahead and give them what they want.

Sure, if they make it worth my while. I'm writing that check.

Thanks for finally being honest Sandhusker.

You just negotiated away the US steel industry, auto industry, shipping industry, electronics industry and maybe other interests Korea wants in on. What did you get in return? The US's second or was it the fourth biggest export market?

If they make it worth my while.... every R-calfer would be proud.
 

Sandhusker

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Jason said:
Sandhusker said:
Jason said:
They want unfettered access to the US market for their exports.

Go ahead and give them what they want.

Sure, if they make it worth my while. I'm writing that check.

Thanks for finally being honest Sandhusker.

You just negotiated away the US steel industry, auto industry, shipping industry, electronics industry and maybe other interests Korea wants in on. What did you get in return? The US's second or was it the fourth biggest export market?

If they make it worth my while.... every R-calfer would be proud.

I did? Is this another one of you and SH's "double the market" fantasies?
 

Jason

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To gain your beef advantage you granted unfettered access to the entire US economy to the Koreans.

Look up unfettered, maybe that is why you don't see the problem.
 

Sandhusker

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Jason said:
To gain your beef advantage you granted unfettered access to the entire US economy to the Koreans.

Look up unfettered, maybe that is why you don't see the problem.

You haven't been paying attention, Jason. Negotiations are already under way.
 
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