Under the deal that has been struck, the EU will keep its ban on hormone-treated beef, but the import quota levels for non-hormone treated beef would be increased, giving greater access to the EU market for exporters in the US and Canada.
American disobedience would also undermine its pressure on the European Union over bananas and hormone-treated beef.
EU's recalcitrance over bananas and hormone-treated beef, and by America's growing disenchantment with curbs on its unilateralist instincts.
Europeans stonewalled not just over bananas, but also over rulings on hormone-treated beef.
WTO-approved sanctions relate to the oldest dispute of all, covering hormone-treated beef .
It could quickly escalate, since America and Europe are also at odds over hormone-treated beef, genetically modified foods and much else.
Consider a favourite example of European sceptics: the continuing dispute between the European Union and the United States over hormone-treated beef.
EU's ban on imports of hormone-treated beef and genetically-modified foods, for instance.
Consider the difference between a traditional trade quarrel, such as a dispute over restrictions on steel imports, and the battle over hormone-treated beef.
They are usually about domestic regulations that have international effects rather than about border controls: Europe has banned all hormone-treated beef, not just America's.
Speaking during a debate on 13 March 2012, British Liberal Democrat MEP George Lyon welcomed the decision by MEPs to approve measures to end the so-called "beef hormone dispute".
It wants to respond to growing public concern about genetically engineered food, and thus to reserve the right to reject imports of certain products (it is already in a dispute with the Americans over imports of hormone-treated beef).
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