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<text id=89TT1274>
<title>
May 15, 1989: World Notes:European Community
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 15, 1989 Waiting For Washington
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 51
World Notes
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Nibbling at the Beef over Beef
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<p> What's a little artificial fattening between friends? When
the twelve-nation European Community banned the import of
hormone-treated beef last January, claiming possible health
hazards, American cattle ranchers were furious. They saw it as
merely a protectionist maneuver to keep nearly $100 million in
U.S. beef each year out of European shops. The U.S. Government
retaliated by slapping 100% tariffs on a variety of E.C.
exports worth roughly $100 million a year.
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<p> Some feared that the battle could escalate into a
full-blown trade war. But tempers cooled last week when the two
sides reached an interim agreement. The U.S. is resuming
shipments of untreated beef, totaling $15 million annually,
which the E.C. had included in the ban because U.S. inspectors
refused to certify that it was in fact untreated. In turn, the
U.S. tariffs on E.C. goods will be scaled back. Trade
Representative Carla Hills said that while the interim agreement
was a positive step, the U.S. still feels that the E.C.'s import
ban is "an unjustifiable restriction on trade."
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