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[News Briefing] S.Korea doubles imports of U.S. beef
Posted Feb. 22, 2011

South Korea’s imports of U.S. beef nearly doubled in 2010 from a year earlier, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
According to the ministry, the country imported 125,681 tons of beef from the U.S. last year, a 97 percent increase from 63,817 tons in 2009, due largely to dwindling concerns over its safety such as wide spread foot-and-mouth disease. It reaches around 63 percent of the biggest amounts, 199,409 tons imported by South Korea in 2003 before the U.S. beef import ban went into effect in late 2003 after the first case of mad cow disease was reported in the U.S.