Canadian Agriculture Minister assumes Japan will live up to commitment of treating U.S. and Canada as integrated partners.
According to Bloomberg News, Japan will allow imports of Canadian beef on similar conditions as U.S. meat.
Bloomberg reports that Canadian Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell says Canada had received a firm commitment from the Japanese government that Canada and the United States are treated as one within the integrated North American beef marketplace.
Statistics Canada reports that Canada exported C$81 million (US$66 million) of beef to Japan in 2002 and C$41.5 in 2003 before the ban was implemented when Canada found its first bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) case.
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