Trade spat looms as South Korea rejects second U.S. beef shipment
Yonhap News
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) — South Korea said on Friday it will destroy or return a second shipment of U.S. beef after bone fragments were found in violation of a bilateral agreement that allowed imports of U.S. beef to resume.
The second rejection in one month is expected to be an issue for South Korean and U.S. trade negotiators who are scheduled to hold a fifth round of free trade agreement (FTA) talks next week at the Big Sky Resort in Montana, a state where beef cattle are raised.
South Korea, once the world’s third-largest buyer of U.S. beef, has agreed to import only boneless meat from the United States, ending a three-year ban after an outbreak of mad cow disease in that country.
