US Market Reopens For Dutch Beef
March 02
14:38
2016
The United States has announced that it will lift its ban on beef from the Netherlands. The US market had been closed since the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak in the 1990s.
After Ireland and Lithuania, the Netherlands is the third EU country to gain access to the US market since the BSE-related ban. The opening of the US market to Dutch beef sends a positive signal to producers in other parts of the EU that are still waiting for the end of the disproportionately strict and lasting US trade restrictions.
