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The Senate approved legislation that would encourage the European Union (EU) to drop its ban on U.S. beef, the NCBA said. The legislation would work to bring the EU into compliance with international trade law. NCBA, along with other members of an agricultural coalition, applauded the legislation, which the Senate approved as part of a larger trade bill. NCBA is also working with House agricultural leadership to secure consideration in the House. "EU officials' continued disregard of WTO rulings in the beef and banana cases has proven that static retaliation is not working as well as we had hoped," said Dana Hauck, a cattle producer from Delphos, Kan., and NCBA International Markets Committee chair. "Mandatory carousel retaliation will help U.S. trade officials to resolve these disputes, by increasing the pressure on the EU." The World Trade Organization has ruled that the EU ban on U.S. beef and import policies on bananas are illegal. These EU trade barriers are causing cattle producers and other agriculture industries more than $25 million every month in lost business. Despite WTO-sanctioned tariffs imposed by the United States earlier this year, the EU has refused to bring its trade policies into compliance with international law. |
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