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This 5 page report discusses the fact that, in 1989, the European Union (EU) implemented a ban on imported beef from animals treated with growth-promoting hormones, cutting off U.S. beef exports to the EU valued at approximately $100 million annually. Canada and the U.S. have issued lists of “retaliation” European goods that will (and in some cases already are) the targets of steeply increased import tariffs in order to gain access to the North American markets. The retaliation has created a great deal of animosity on both sides of the Atlantic. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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impact Europes willingness to increase its fiscal responsibilities in the global market. Crook (1999) points out that the entire issue is ridiculous, however, the questions it raises are not so
funny. One is obvious enough--whether the rule of international trade law should prevail in the global economy. A related question is much less obvious and has passed more or less
unnoticed--whether America is right to assume, as it does, that if the rule of might should instead prevail in the world economy, America will always get its way.
According to Bausman (1999), speaking for the American trade association the National Cattlemens Beef Association, on January 1, 1989, the European Union (EU) implemented
a ban on imported beef from animals treated with growth-promoting hormones, cutting off U.S. beef exports to the EU valued at approximately $100 million annually. At issue, according to the
EU has been the use of growth promoting hormones in the beef grown in the United States. American beef producers claim that the meat has "been thoroughly tested and
shown to have no adverse effects on human or animal health, and have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Decades of study by the international scientific
community - including EU scientists - have confirmed the safety of these products" (org/ft/eubeeff.htm). According to Elliott (1999), the "meat" of the matter
(pun intended) behind the European Commissions ban is a report on health risks associated with opening Europes border to North American beef. A summary of the report prepared by the
EUs Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures Relating to Public Health was released May 3, 1999 in Brussels. Elliott (1999) quotes a very brief summary of the report that stated: "There
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