US Approves Dumping StarLink Corn Overseas US Government Says It's OK to Dump StarLink Corn on Our Overseas Customers
USA: US Corn Exporters Relieved At Starlink Export Okay. 27 Oct 2000 Author: Reuters By Randy Fabi "We were handicapped because we could only go to domestic feed lots," Cunningham told Reuters in a telephone interview. But with the government clarification, ADM and other grain exporters can now market to the international feed market. "We can start doing business again," Cunningham said. However, other industry experts said many more questions remain - including whether foreign buyers will maintain import volumes of U.S. corn. "We are not out of the woods yet," said Eric Erickson, vice president for the U.S. Grains Council. U.S. government officials were scrambling to ease rising concerns from Japan and the European Union, who fear the StarLink corn could find its way into their food supply. Japan's Agriculture Ministry said on Friday it had asked visiting U.S. officials not to export corn containing StarLink. Japanese supermarkets and stores have already pulled products containing it from shelves. Japan is the world's largest corn importer and buys about 16 million tonnes per year, including four million tonnes for food and the rest for feed. ADM executives said its corn shipments would be travelling to South America, Europe, Mexico and Latin America, but not to Japan. "I think we are going to have to wait a little bit on Japan," Cunningham said. "That is a front burner issue over there and I don't think they are going to reverse their feel overnight." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Home Selling? Try Us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/QrPZMC/iTmEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
