The EU's top agriculture official urged Japan to open up its market for beef from the whole bloc.
File: From 1996, Japan banned beef imports from Britain, citing fears of BSE infection.TOKYO - The EU's top agriculture official urged Japan to open up its market for beef from the whole bloc, saying Europe expected"reciprocity" for importing Japan's famous Wagyu and Kobe beef.
"We are intensively working to convince Japan that we have reached the necessary levels of technical and operational criteria to be granted access for the entirety of the European Union as a single entity," Hogan said on a visit to Japan. "The EU expects to see reciprocity once the criteria are fulfilled and we believe there is... full compliance with what is demanded of us from the Japanese side," he stressed.
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