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Japan unlikely to give a timetable for resuming US beef imports

16/03/2005

Tokyo is unlikely to give US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a timetable for resuming beef imports from the United States when she visits Japan this week, the government said on Tuesday.

 

Tokyo cut off US beef purchases worth more than $1 billion a year in late 2003 after the United States reported its first case of BSE.

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