200단어-- No U.S. beef(For Adults)

SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- No U.S. beef will exported to South Korea until the countries agree on limiting shipments to meat from cattle of a certain age, South Korea's agriculture minister said Tuesday.

 

 

 

Protesters at a Sunday demonstration in Seoul against U.S. beef imports.

 

That effectively keeps in place -- at least for now -- a five-year ban on American beef products that was installed over a case of mad cow disease in the United States in 2003. The agriculture ministers statement marks a change from a recent deal to resume beef imports with no age restrictions.

 

"Because the public is most concerned about meat from cattle over 30 months old, we have asked the United States not to export that kind," Chung Woon-chun, South Korea's agriculture minister, told reporters Tuesday, according to the Yonhap news agency.

Tens of thousands of people in South Korea have protested the governments plan to import beef from the United States.

CNN contacted the U.S. Embassy in Seoul for comment on the decision, but no one was immediately available to respond.

On Monday, the South Korean government put off the final administrative step needed to resume imports. Without that step taking place, no beef will be imported from the United States. (208 words)

 

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