White House balks at Senate resolution on beef imports from Paraguay

A Senate resolution crafted to undo the Agriculture Department’s decision to allow Paraguayan beef to enter the U.S. could undermine U.S. market access and national security, the White House said this week in a statement of administration policy. Last November, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said it would allow beef imports from Paraguay if no cases of foot-and-mouth disease were found in the exporting region in the past year and if animals were inspected before and after death,...