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According to Reuters, Ritz met South Korean trade and agriculture ministers that they have until the end of this month to reopen the borders to Canadian beef. South Korea, formerly Canada’s fourth biggest export market for beef, stopped all imports following the discovery of mad cow disease in the west of the country.
"We left the Koreans with no illusion that the FTA is on hold until we get this beef issue worked through and resolved to Canadian producers' benefit," Ritz reportedly said in a conference call, says Reuters.
"It makes it very difficult to move forward when they want to just hive off a very significant part of our exports and hold it in abeyance while we move forward with all smiles and chuckles.”