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Asia Pacific

It's not the border, it's the BSE
A Japanese agriculture official last week dismissed U.S. claims that Tokyo is more likely to resume imports of North American beef if the U.S. ends its ban on Canadian cattle.

Europe

Foot-and-mouth warning issued
Britain risks a repeat of the devastating 2001 foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak unless more is done to clamp down on illegal meat importers, the country's spending watchdog says.

Americas

Canada expands markets outside of North America
The Canadian Pork Council says the emergence of the United States as a major global exporter of pork has underscored the importance of reducing Canada's dependence of the U.S. market.

Positive Performance
One of Spain’s largest meat processors, Campofrío, increased its net profit in 2004 reaching Euro 30.3 million.

USA

Factory-farm protection bill under question
A couple of years ago, when the Legislature first tried to overrule local governments’ efforts to regulate factory hog farms, we warned that such an action could easily foreshadow further legislative incursion into communities’ ability to govern themselves.

CAFTA may be trade story of 2005
The move to win approval for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) when it's presented to Congress for ratification will be "the trade fight of 2005" and one that "the whole world will be watching," according to Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Chris Padilla, reported Feedstuffs.

R-CALF hurting U.S. processors
The North American Meat Processors Association, Reston, Virginia, said that the continued ban on the importation of live Canadian cattle, while Canadian boxed beef is allowed to enter the United States is “a senseless contradiction, and is forcing the meat processing industry to face serious economic injury.”

Asia Pacific

It's not the border, it's the BSE
A Japanese agriculture official last week dismissed U.S. claims that Tokyo is more likely to resume imports of North American beef if the U.S. ends its ban on Canadian cattle.

Europe

Foot-and-mouth warning issued
Britain risks a repeat of the devastating 2001 foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak unless more is done to clamp down on illegal meat importers, the country's spending watchdog says.

Americas

Canada expands markets outside of North America
The Canadian Pork Council says the emergence of the United States as a major global exporter of pork has underscored the importance of reducing Canada's dependence of the U.S. market.

Positive Performance
One of Spain’s largest meat processors, Campofrío, increased its net profit in 2004 reaching Euro 30.3 million.

USA

Factory-farm protection bill under question
A couple of years ago, when the Legislature first tried to overrule local governments’ efforts to regulate factory hog farms, we warned that such an action could easily foreshadow further legislative incursion into communities’ ability to govern themselves.

CAFTA may be trade story of 2005
The move to win approval for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) when it's presented to Congress for ratification will be "the trade fight of 2005" and one that "the whole world will be watching," according to Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Chris Padilla, reported Feedstuffs.

R-CALF hurting U.S. processors
The North American Meat Processors Association, Reston, Virginia, said that the continued ban on the importation of live Canadian cattle, while Canadian boxed beef is allowed to enter the United States is “a senseless contradiction, and is forcing the meat processing industry to face serious economic injury.”