Taiwan to conditionally lift 16-year-old import ban on Japanese beef

WHY?! Being the Japanese "Market" is just as closed to outside imports as it ALWAYS has, why change this NOW?

@Hiro

Average consumption of beef in Taiwan is now over 5kg per person per year.

Just like in nominally Buddhist Japan, religion appears to have very little influence.

I certainly don't eat 5 kilos of beef a year....

Hiro S Nobumasa: "So this is more of a political rather than economic significance."

So, you're complaining about this?

Anyway, I can't understand why on earth they would import from the US but not Japan if it is ACTUALLY about the risk of mad cow. If it were a slap on Japanese companies for mislabelling, overcharging, and also a reaction to Japan's own import limits, I can see it.