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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8824

10 November 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/usa/trade
Washington opposed scientific findings for underpinning European ban on hormones in meat

Brussels, 09/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European directive of 2003 on banning hormones in meat has not always been based on well-founded and solid scientific proof and does not justify trade sanctions at all imposed on the USA (and Canada), following arbitration at the WTO in 1998, which found against the EU. Drawing on these terms, the US administration reacted to the European complaint lodged at the World Trade Organisation on Monday (EUROPE yesterday p 10). The spokesperson for US...

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