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SRES 87 109th Congress Senate Foreign Trade and International Finance Agriculture and Food Agriculture in foreign trade Animals Bovine spongiform encephalopathy East Asia Exports Food safety Health Import restrictions International Affairs Japan Meat Sanctions (International law) Trade agreements

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the resumption of beef exports to Japan.

Introduced: March 17, 2005 Introduced by: Thune, John Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov
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Declares the sense of the Senate that if the Government of Japan continues to delay in meeting its obligations under the understanding reached with the United States on October 23, 2004, to resume beef imports from the United States, the U.S. Trade Representative should immediately impose retaliatory economic measures on Japan.

What's happening now March 17, 2005

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3069-3070)

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. Res. 87: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the resumption of beef exports to Japan.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-SRES-87/
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"S. Res. 87: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the resumption of beef exports to Japan.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-SRES-87/.
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S. Res. 87, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-SRES-87/.
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