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EU approves U.S.-specific beef quota, resolving longstanding WTO dispute

July 16, 2019 at 4:31 PM
EU member states on Monday approved granting the U.S. a majority share of its tariff-rate quota for hormone-free beef, resolving a longstanding World Trade Organization dispute over a European ban on hormone-treated beef. Under the agreement, which will be signed “at the earliest possible date” in Brussels, according to an EU release , the U.S. will be given 35,000 tons out of the 45,000-ton TRQ. The EU sought, and was granted , a mandate to negotiate with the U.S. on...

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