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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10574
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) trade

Hormone-treated beef - yes to concessions to end conflict

Brussels, 14/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 14 March, the European Parliament approved the regulation increasing the autonomous tariff quota for imports of high-quality bovine meat, a text which will allow the EU to put an end to the old dispute with the United States and Canada over the trade in hormone-treated beef (see EUROPE 10542). This agreement will allow the EU to keep in place the ban on importing beef from cattle which have been treated with hormones, in exchange for an...

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