After one full year, Japan has continued the ban on the import of US beef and beef products from the United States. The ban began in December 2003, when a single case of BSE was discovered in Washington State. While there have been BSE scares, there has been no further discovery of the disease. Before the ban, Japan was a billion dollar customer of US packers, who had hoped that after a year, beef exports to Japan would begin again.

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