Customer Service (Brandon Sun) YAKIMA, Wash. - Beginning Monday, the United States will allow cattle over 30 months of age into the country from Canada, the latest step in a long disruption of trade caused by the discovery of mad cow disease there in 2003. [News Source]

State of livestock industry worse than mad cow days, some say (CBC Saskatchewan) The livestock industry is facing tougher times now than it did during the mad cow crisis, some in the industry say. [News Source]

Bush works to cement alliance with Japan (AP via Yahoo! News) With gestures both symbolic and substantive, President Bush sought on Friday to ensure that Japan remains a loyal American ally in volatile, crucial Asia. [News Source]

U.S. beef exporters cite losses in S. Korean market. American beef exporters on Thursday lamented millions of U.S. dollars in losses from a restricted South Korean market and called on the two governments to rectify inspection standards, said South Korean news agency, Yonhap. [News Source]

World overreacted to U.S. mad cow discovery: industry. Major U.S. beef customers, including Japan and South Korea, overreacted to the United States' discovery of mad cow disease four years ago, the meat industry told an independent trade panel on Thursday. [News Source]

Fukuda to Meet Bush to Discuss Alliance, Korea, Beef (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will discuss a partial beef ban, security cooperation and disagreements over North Korea policy with President George W. Bush in Washington today, three issues troubling the U.S.-Japan alliance. [News Source]

Fukuda to Meet Bush to Discuss Alliance, Korea, Beef (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News) Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will discuss a partial beef ban, security cooperation and disagreements over North Korea policy with President George W. Bush in Washington today, three issues troubling the U.S.-Japan alliance. [News Source]