The U.S. International Trade Commission has begun investigating restrictions on the nation's beef trade by governments such as Japan and Korea as a precaution against mad-cow disease.
The Senate Finance Committee requested the probe, saying the U.S. livestock industry has been hurt by the restrictions, the International Trade Commission said yesterday in a statement in Washington.
The ITC, an independent federal fact-finding agency, plans to report by June 6 to the committee, headed by Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana. The trade commission has scheduled a public hearing Nov. 15 in connection with the investigation.
Yes, the ITC has begun investigating whether the livestock industry here in the US has been hurt by Japanese and South Korea beef bans and plan to have the report done by June 6th of all damn things. That's just amazingly speedy, isn't it? 9 months. How can they move at such a blindingly fast pace? It must be exhausting for them.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way. St. Jerome
1) Too little to late, as always
BUT, BUT,
2) Sometime in the future when cattle producers start screaming the Government will point to this hearing / review KNOWING that everyone will forget that the barn door has already let the horses out.