CANADIAN BEEF EXPORTERS HAIL TAIWAN DECISION TO FURTHER REOPEN MARKETS
January 1st, 2014
CANADIAN beef exporters are applauding Taiwan's announcement last week that it will accept more Canadian beef imports, a decade after an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - mad cow disease - sparked health concerns and closed markets to Canada. "We're very happy to have this step. We hope they see it through," said John Masswohl, Canadian Cattlemen's Association director of government and international relations. "Taiwan was always an important market," importing high value products, said he added.Taiwan plans to allow imports of Canadian ...
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