Senator (Baucus) pens strong warning to S. Korea on beef - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Senator pens strong warning to S. Korea on beef

Wed Apr 25, 3:24 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's top lawmaker on
international trade issued a stern missive this week to South
Korea's president, warning that failure to end a row over beef
imports will doom a newly minted trade pact.

"My support for (U.S.-Korea trade) agreement hinges on whether
Korea commits to lift its unscientific ban on exports of American
beef," Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who chairs the
Senate Finance Committee, wrote in a letter to President Roh
Moo-hyun.

In the letter, which was released on Wednesday, Baucus
threatened to sink the bill in his committee, which oversees trade,
unless "American beef is flowing into the Korean market," including
bone-in cuts from animals of any age.

Politicians and industry officials have been hopping mad since
South Korea rejected a series of three beef shipments that
contained trace bone chips.

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[Jim Sagle]

1. I've got a bone chip for Baucus right here.