Japan, U.S. to Resume Some Beef Imports
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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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Suspension of Canadian beef imports will be partially lifted by the Hong Kong government, which will resume processing applications with immediate effect, the Food and Environmental
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TOKYO - Japan could stop testing newborn and younger cows for mad cow disease without posing a risk to public health, a special panel decided Monday, in a ruling that could influence talks to lift Tokyo&#39;s ban on American beef imports.
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Japan and the United States agreed on Saturday to resume imports of American beef from animals with birth records up to 20 months, Japan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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Trade talks on lifting the Japanese ban on US beef ended in Tokyo Saturday with some progress and pledges to talk again. A source close to the talks said the two sides reached
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday that he and U.S. President George W. Bush "see eye to eye" on the need for a quick resumption of their bilateral beef trade, but Japan wants more mad cow safety studies.
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Japan's lucrative market for U.S. beef, ruptured by mad cow disease worries, is likely to remain closed for the rest of this year, U.S. meat industry officials said on Thursday.
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TOKYO -- Japan and the United States agreed yesterday 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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Japan indicated on Tuesday that it was nearing a decision on dropping its policy of testing all cattle for mad-cow disease, a move likely to move forward efforts to ease a nine-month-old ban on U.S. beef imports.
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Japanese and US officials in Tokyo have reached a framework agreement that should permit the resumption of beef trade between the two countries.
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TOKYO, Oct. 26 -- Japanese opposition leaders and consumer groups this week criticized a tentative agreement to lift a ban on U.S. beef imports, calling it a political gift from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to President Bush before the U.S. election.
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TOKYO (DTN) -- Here&#39;s the good news on the high-level US-Japan mad cow talks last week in Tokyo: Japan (in principle) will lift a ban on US beef that was put in place last December after the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was
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Tokyo (VNA) - Japan and Latin America need to resume economic ties and boost political cooperation, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Japanese imports of U.S. beef totaled   only 105 tonnes in August, the first full month of shipments   since Tokyo reopened the market to meat from the United States,   government data showed on Thursday.
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New Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns began his tenure Monday by pledging to get American beef exports moving again to Japan, a lucrative market that has been closed to U.S. producers since the discovery of mad cow disease in this country in December 2003.
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TOKYO : Japan is set to propose the partial lifting of a ban on imports of American beef to United States authorities, a news report said.
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TOKYO Oct 23, 2004 - US and Japanese negotiators tentatively agreed Saturday to ease a 10-month-old ban on American beef exports to Japan, the leader of the US delegation said.