US-Japan sign beef export agreement

The US and Japan have signed the agreement to revise the beef safeguard under the US-Japan Trade Agreement.

Kent Bacus with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says this provides greater certainty for US beef in one of its best export markets. “If you look at Japan overall, just the first quarter this year we’re close to 600 million in sales,” he said. “Sales are up over 20 percent. They are our second largest export market, and the last thing we want to do is to jeopardize that.”

He tells Brownfield this agreement underscores the importance of good trading relationships.

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