The European Union pushed back Dec. 23 against the initial move by the Obama administration to reinstate tariffs tied to the EU ban on hormone-treated beef.
The EU has met the commitments in a 2009 agreement with the U.S. on imports of hormone-free beef, an EU official said in a Dec. 23 statement obtained by Bloomberg BNA. The previous day U.S. officials said U.S. beef had been denied EU market access despite the U.S.-EU Memorandum of Understanding on High-Quality Beef, which is beef raised without growth-stimulating hormones.
“The EU has fully complied, both in the letter and in spirit, with the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the United States in 2009, establishing a hormone-free beef quota,” the EU official said in response to Dec. 22 statements by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
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