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Asia Pacific

U.S. beef exporters woo Japanese consumers
Japanese businessmen use chopsticks Tuesday to grill sliced beef that was air freighted from the state of California at a barbecue restaurant in Kawaguchi, on Tokyo's outskits.

Seoul, Washington to start talks on resuming U.S. beef imports 
Negotiations between Korea and the United States on conditions for importing U.S. beef will begin soon, serving as the preliminary step to Seoul deciding whether to lift the import ban, the government said yesterday.

Americas

Despite FMD, Brazil's beef exports expected to continue strong growth
The Brazilian Meat Exporters Association (Abiec) forecasts double-digit growth in beef exports for 2006, despite outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in several of its prime cattle-producing states.

Canada ramps U.S. trade issues
Feedgrain just got more expensive in Canada. Last week, the Canadian Border Services Agency has elected to enact a preliminary duty on unprocessed U.S. corn imports from the United States. Effective immediately, $1.65 (U.S.) per bushel will be added to those imports.

USA

USDA chief seeks advice on BSE testing changes
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has achieved all of the goals it set out to accomplish with its special "enhanced" mad-cow surveillance efforts, but testing will continue at an elevated rate while foreign beef trading partners and scientific experts are consulted on what the next steps should be, USDA Secretary Mike Johanns said.

U.S. grain-feed group comments on FDA's BSE proposal
The U.S. National Grain and Feed Association has submitted a statement to the Food and Drug Administration that strongly supports most aspects of the agency’s proposal on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the grain group said Wednesday.

U.S. to sell 100,000 tons of beef in Japan 
U.S. producers expect to export 100,000 metric tons of beef to Japan next year, just a third of what they sold before a 2003 ban on imports due to the mad cow scare, the head of the U.S. Meat Export Federation said Thursday.

Asia Pacific

U.S. beef exporters woo Japanese consumers
Japanese businessmen use chopsticks Tuesday to grill sliced beef that was air freighted from the state of California at a barbecue restaurant in Kawaguchi, on Tokyo's outskits.

Seoul, Washington to start talks on resuming U.S. beef imports 
Negotiations between Korea and the United States on conditions for importing U.S. beef will begin soon, serving as the preliminary step to Seoul deciding whether to lift the import ban, the government said yesterday.

Americas

Despite FMD, Brazil's beef exports expected to continue strong growth
The Brazilian Meat Exporters Association (Abiec) forecasts double-digit growth in beef exports for 2006, despite outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in several of its prime cattle-producing states.

Canada ramps U.S. trade issues
Feedgrain just got more expensive in Canada. Last week, the Canadian Border Services Agency has elected to enact a preliminary duty on unprocessed U.S. corn imports from the United States. Effective immediately, $1.65 (U.S.) per bushel will be added to those imports.

USA

USDA chief seeks advice on BSE testing changes
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has achieved all of the goals it set out to accomplish with its special "enhanced" mad-cow surveillance efforts, but testing will continue at an elevated rate while foreign beef trading partners and scientific experts are consulted on what the next steps should be, USDA Secretary Mike Johanns said.

U.S. grain-feed group comments on FDA's BSE proposal
The U.S. National Grain and Feed Association has submitted a statement to the Food and Drug Administration that strongly supports most aspects of the agency’s proposal on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the grain group said Wednesday.

U.S. to sell 100,000 tons of beef in Japan 
U.S. producers expect to export 100,000 metric tons of beef to Japan next year, just a third of what they sold before a 2003 ban on imports due to the mad cow scare, the head of the U.S. Meat Export Federation said Thursday.