CRS Report on EU-Beef Hormone Dispute Says 2009 Agreement Being Phased In
The Congressional Research Service has issued a report providing the history of theU.S. - European Union Beef Hormone Dispute (R40449).
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CRS states that the U.S. and the European Union (EU) have engaged in a long-standing and acrimonious trade dispute over the EU’s decision to ban hormone-treated meat. Despite an ongoing series of dispute settlement proceedings and decisions by the World Trade Organization (WTO), there was continued disagreement between the U.S. and the EU on a range of legal and procedural issues, as well as the scientific evidence and consensus concerning the safety of hormone-treated beef. To date, the EU continues to ban imports of hormone-treated meat and restricts most meat exports to the European Union to a limited quantity of beef imports that are certified as produced without the use of hormones.
In May 2009, following a series of negotiations, the U.S. and the EU agreed to a settlement that could resolve this long-standing trade dispute. The terms of this agreement will be phased in over the next few years.
(See ITT’s Online Archives or 09/22/09 news, 09092205, for most recent BP summary of this dispute in which the U.S. fulfilled the first phase of the agreement and canceled the pending expansion of 100% retaliatory duty modification.)