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Oct. 10, 2005
Senators Pressure U.S. Trade Rep
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), along with 20 other senators, wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman Oct. 7, urging him to utilize retaliatory measures against Japan’s continued ban on U.S. beef.
According to a release issued by Roberts, the letter stated, “It is now clear that Japan is simply using this issue to maintain an unwarranted and unjustified trade barrier.”
The U.S. and Japan first signed a mutual agreement October 2004 to resume trade; however, despite efforts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and other agencies, Japan has failed to prudently change its policy, the letter noted.
Senators also stated, “We regret that negotiations have deteriorated to the point where we must make this request. However, the Japanese government must understand that the American beef industry and government cannot continue to stand idly by while Japan builds roadblock after roadblock to U.S. beef.”
T-bones Return to EU
The European Union (EU) Oct. 5 agreed to allow T-bone steaks back into European restaurants, according to Reuters. The move ends a four-year ban on beef containing the backbone from animals more than 12 months of age. The ban was imposed in an effort to prevent the spread of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human equivalent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Now, EU veterinary experts have raised the limit to animals more than 24 months of age.
British beef exports, banned since 1996, are also being allowed back into the EU, the article noted.
ERS Releases Beef Consumption Study
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) released a study Oct. 7 detailing statistics of U.S. beef consumption.
Beef is the second-most consumed meat behind chicken in the United States, averaging 67 pounds (lb.) per person per year. Findings based on the 1994-1996 and 1998 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) indicate that most beef was eaten at home. Annual beef consumption per person was highest in the Midwest (73 lb.), followed by the South and West (65 lb. each), and the Northeast (63 lb.).
Rural consumers ate more beef (75 lb.) than did urban and suburban consumers (66 and 63 lb., respectively). Beef consumption also varies by race and ethnicity. Blacks ate 77 lb. of beef per person per year, followed by 69 lb. by Hispanics, 65 lb. by whites, and 62 lb. by other races. According to the report, low-income consumers tend to eat more beef than consumers in other income households.
Visit www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ldp/Oct05/ldpm13502 for more information and the complete report.
— compiled by Crystal Albers, Angus Productions Inc.
Oct. 10, 2005
Senators Pressure U.S. Trade Rep
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), along with 20 other senators, wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman Oct. 7, urging him to utilize retaliatory measures against Japan’s continued ban on U.S. beef.
According to a release issued by Roberts, the letter stated, “It is now clear that Japan is simply using this issue to maintain an unwarranted and unjustified trade barrier.”
The U.S. and Japan first signed a mutual agreement October 2004 to resume trade; however, despite efforts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and other agencies, Japan has failed to prudently change its policy, the letter noted.
Senators also stated, “We regret that negotiations have deteriorated to the point where we must make this request. However, the Japanese government must understand that the American beef industry and government cannot continue to stand idly by while Japan builds roadblock after roadblock to U.S. beef.”
T-bones Return to EU
The European Union (EU) Oct. 5 agreed to allow T-bone steaks back into European restaurants, according to Reuters. The move ends a four-year ban on beef containing the backbone from animals more than 12 months of age. The ban was imposed in an effort to prevent the spread of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human equivalent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Now, EU veterinary experts have raised the limit to animals more than 24 months of age.
British beef exports, banned since 1996, are also being allowed back into the EU, the article noted.
ERS Releases Beef Consumption Study
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) released a study Oct. 7 detailing statistics of U.S. beef consumption.
Beef is the second-most consumed meat behind chicken in the United States, averaging 67 pounds (lb.) per person per year. Findings based on the 1994-1996 and 1998 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) indicate that most beef was eaten at home. Annual beef consumption per person was highest in the Midwest (73 lb.), followed by the South and West (65 lb. each), and the Northeast (63 lb.).
Rural consumers ate more beef (75 lb.) than did urban and suburban consumers (66 and 63 lb., respectively). Beef consumption also varies by race and ethnicity. Blacks ate 77 lb. of beef per person per year, followed by 69 lb. by Hispanics, 65 lb. by whites, and 62 lb. by other races. According to the report, low-income consumers tend to eat more beef than consumers in other income households.
Visit www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ldp/Oct05/ldpm13502 for more information and the complete report.
— compiled by Crystal Albers, Angus Productions Inc.
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