AreaJapan

Commodity GroupMeat

CommodityBovine meat

Date01/02/2016

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentImport ban

DescriptionLifted ban on beef imports from Denmark. Japan imposed a ban on bovine meat imports from all EU countries in 2001, referring to the risk of BSE. The ban had been lifted for four other EU countries – France, Ireland, the Netherlands and Poland – in 2013.