15/07/2019 (Agence Europe) – At the meeting of Agriculture Ministers on Monday 15 July, the EU Council adopted its decision on the signing of an agreement between the European Union and the United States, allowing the United States to increase to 35,000 tonnes their share of an existing duty-free tariff quota of 45,000 tonnes of hormone-free beef, phased over seven years (see EUROPE B12275A21, B12215A9). This agreement was concluded with Washington in the first quarter of 2019. This...