Commodity Groups Want A Trade Deal With South Korea

Commodity groups and processors are urging the federal government to get cracking on a free trade agreement with South Korea to ensure Canadian exports are not displaced by competitors. Trade talks between Canada and South Korea have been stalled since 2008. South Korea is a valuable market for Canadian grains and oilseeds, said Jim Everson,

North Koreans Suffering Chronic Malnutrition

In a pediatric hospital in North Korea s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. Their mothers have to bring them here on bicycles, said duty doctor Jang Kum Son in the Yellow Sea port city of Haeju. We used


Canadian Beef Expected To Re-Enter South Korea Soon

The head of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association hopes Canadian beef exports to South Korea will resume later this year, following an agreement between the two countries to resume trade after an eight-year hiatus. Travis Toews called the agreement significant because South Korea was once Canada’s fourth-largest beef customer until 2003, when the discovery of BSE

Beef Sales To South Korea Could Resume

Canada and South Korea moved closer to a deal that would partially restore Canadian beef access and end South Korea’s eight year-old ban, Canada’s agriculture and trade ministers said June 29. South Korea is the last major beef-importing country to agree to lower its restrictions on Canadian beef since a 2003 outbreak of mad-cow disease


South Korea Returns To U. S. Beef

South Korea has reclaimed its position as the No. 3 market for U. S. beef after lifting a five-year ban put in place following the first case of mad cow disease in the United States in 2003. Industry sources expect sales to South Korea to continue rising in coming months amid some stability in the