Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: trade

  • Border Ruling

    I know I am a little behind on this one but life sometimes gets in the way of things. The <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> <a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/09/0247.xml">has approved</a> the import of Canadian cattle over 30 months of age into the US. This is, to say…

  • Baucus Stands Up

    A little more information on my rant yesterday about <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2252-South-Koreas-Trade-Barrier.html">South Korea's unofficial, official</a> trade barrier to US beef.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/04/news/state/50-baucus.txt" >Baucus sets condition to support pact</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The next chairman of the Senate Finance Committee sliced into a T-bone steak here Sunday and said he cannot support a free-trade agreement between the United…

  • South Korea’s Trade Barrier

    I posted a while ago that South Korea had <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2036-Good-News.html">opened up its market to US beef</a> and how the news made me happy. It turns out I was wrong. While <strong>technically</strong> opening its market to US beef, South Korea has has rejected almost every shipment of beef into its country for one reason or…

  • NCBA Grows A Set

    <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=44862"><acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>: Cattlemen Favor Ban On Japanese Beef, Additional Sanctions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In action taken today, the Executive Committee of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (<acronym title="National Cattlemans Beef Association, shills for the big meat packers">NCBA</acronym>) voted unanimously to support retaliatory measures hinging on the immediate…

  • Unfair Trade Practices

    <a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/20060312TDY01004.htm"> Bush's beef remarks show rising U.S. ire</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. President George W. Bush voiced high expectation Friday of Japan's early resumption of U.S. beef imports in a speech at a conference of media company managers that showed signs of Washington's increasing irritation over the issue.<br />n<br />nJapan reimposed the ban in January after…

  • Yet Another Country Opens

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/14/build/world/70-beef-imports.inc">South Korea OKs some U.S. beef imports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea and the United States agreed Friday on partially ending a two-year import ban on American beef triggered by mad cow disease, the South Korean government said.<br />n<br />nSouth Korea shut its doors to U.S. beef imports in December 2003 after the first U.S. case…