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U.S. Vows NOT to Compete with Aus. For Jap Market

Mike

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US vows not to compete over Japanese beef market

Tuesday, 17/10/2006

The United States beef industry has pledged to try to expand the Japanese beef market, rather than take market share from Australia.

Australia is currently hosting beef producers from the United States, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand for the annual five nation beef talks.

The president of the US National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Mike John, says they would rather grow a contracted Japanese beef market than compete against Australia.

"I don't really look at it as a competitive issue, I think that the entire beef consumption is down in Japan - I mean regardless of where the beef comes from," he said.

"So I think together if we work at getting the consumer demand back up for beef we will all benefit from that and so it isn't as much competition as it is getting the Japanese used to eating beef."
 

Econ101

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What is that saying Agman uses, supply is equal to consumption? The supply is down because the U.S. will not allow forward thinking companies like Creekstone to BSE test and sell to the Japanese. It reduces the competition of the big boys to themselves only. If Creekstone and others were allowed to test, they would have increased the supply equals consumption and Johns would be twiddling his thumb trying to figure out how to help the packers over producers in another way. That is the NCBA way.
 
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