apan on Thursday announced the resumption of U.S. beef imports, ending a ban imposed in January due to concerns about mad cow disease that had strained ties with Washington.
U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer immediately welcomed the move, which reopens Japan's lucrative market to a select list of American meat exporters, saying that it resolved an issue of primary importance to the United States.
I have been reading all week, story after story about how this was going to happen. I really got tired of reading the story. I was just waiting for the announcment that it did happen, and it fisnlly came this morning. I really and truly thought Japan would weasel out and not open the market back up. I was wrong.
Opening the market was the easy part, now it's time to build market share, that's the hard part.
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work. Lauryn Hill
