The United States immersed itself in an arrangement with the EU to drop its trade dispute in the WTO over the EU's ban on hormone-treated beef. In return for the U.S. ending the WTO declare and drop its retaliatory tariffs on selected EU products, the EU would augment its imports of non-hormone-treated beef from the U.S. While the 14 beef producers who participated in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's non-hormone-treated cattle (NHTC) program were pleased, the bulk of the U.S. beef business, almost all of which uses growth hormones in its creation processes, would not profit from this deal.
PUBLICATION DATE: October 14, 2013 PRODUCT #: TB0349-HCB-ENG
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