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"en.20120314.22.3-259-000"2
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"The basis of this report is the dispute over the ban, for good reasons of consumer protection and food safety, on imports of beef from the United States and Canada which had been treated with certain growth-promoting hormones. In order to end the dispute, an agreement has been reached which provides for a gradual lifting of the sanctions imposed by the US and Canada on EU agricultural products in exchange for an autonomous zero-duty tariff quota for high-quality beef not treated with hormones. This opening up of the European market to hormone-free beef, which may have positive consequences for the export of various EU products, such as beef and pork products, thereby benefiting the major exporting countries, is due, above all, to economic and commercial pressure and threats from the US and Canada. The sanctions imposed on European products are clear evidence of this. In addition to our ongoing concern as to the quality and safety of meat from the US and Canada, bearing in mind what is known about the intensive and very intensive production methods used in those countries, we also have reservations about the effect of the tariff quota on production in countries like Portugal."@en1
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