WINNIPEG (Reuters) — Taiwan has agreed to accept Canadian bone-in beef and other products from cattle younger than 30 months of age.
The arrangement was signed Feb. 3 and was to go into effect no later than 30 days later, agriculture minister Gerry Ritz and trade minister Ed Fast said in a statement.
Taiwan is the latest country to ease trade restrictions placed on Canada in 2003 after an outbreak of BSE.
Prior to the restrictions, Taiwan was Canada’s fifth largest export market for beef, worth $19.8 million in 2002.
Canada currently ships only boneless beef from cattle younger than 30 months to Taiwan, which was worth $1.4 million in 2012.
