Panel Urges Sanctions on Japan for Beef Ban
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The U.S. should impose economic sanctions on Japan if it fails to put aside its fears of mad cow disease and open its borders to U.S. beef by the end of the summer, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted.
Committee members added the nonbinding language to a fiscal 2007 agricultural funding bill that might be debated in the Senate at the same time Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visits the White House.
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