WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Taiwan has agreed to accept Canadian bone-in beef and other products from cattle under 30 months of age, Canada’s agriculture and international trade ministers said on Wednesday.
The arrangement was signed on 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 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Prior to the restrictions, Taiwan was Canada’s fifth-largest export market for beef, worth C$19.8 million ($17.8 million) in 2002.
Canada currently ships to Taiwan only boneless beef from cattle under 30 months, worth about C$1.4 million in 2012.
