SPRUCE GROVE, Alta. - The end of a ban on Canadian beef exports to South Korea restores almost all markets lost due to the scare over mad cow disease more than eight years ago, but industry leaders say there's still work to do.
"It certainly moves us along the road to closure but we haven't experienced closure yet," said Travis Toews of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. "There's still a number of key markets where we need expanded access in order to return to pre-2003 market access levels."
The federal government announced Friday that South Korea — the last remaining Asian market still closed to Canadian beef — is reopening its borders to shipments of boneless beef from cattle under 30 months old.
The $30-million-a-year value of that trade will be a small part of overall exports, but Toews said the agreement means that 90 per cent of Canada's market access has been restored. More
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