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To: jopawa who wrote (1771)	3/22/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Dan Spillane	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2539

Monday March 22, 3:47 pm...the U.S. ups the stakes in agricultural trade dispute My comment: the EU deserves this, for the corrupt crap they pulled. The base on which the US plans to impose import sanction now includes European food items, and the overall amount went up. (Note: this article is ''in progress''; there will likely be an update soon.) U.S. sets initial retaliation list in EU beef dispute WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - The United States targeted more than $900 million of European Union goods for possible retaliation on Monday as it tried to force a resolution to a 10-year-old dispute over hormone-treated beef. In a telephone news conference with reporters, special U.S. trade negotiator for agriculture Peter Scher told reporters that a large portion of the preliminary list, which will be finalized sometime in early June, targets EU meat products and other agricultural goods for retaliation.