Japan Stance ‘Unchanged’ on U.S. Beef Imports for Talks
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Japan will maintain its stance on restricting some U.S. beef when officials from the two countries hold talks next week, the agriculture ministry said today.
Officials from Japan’s agriculture and health ministries will meet their U.S. counterparts on Sept. 14 and 15 in San Francisco to exchange opinions on U.S. beef, the two ministries said in a joint statement today. Japan doesn’t allow imports of U.S. beef from animals older than 20 months, as the youngest case of mad-cow disease was found in a 21-month-old animal.