The retaliatory tariffs by the United States in the beef case do not punish the beef industry in the European Union; the United States has not imported European beef for years because of objections to heavy subsidies and worries about mad cow and foot-and-mouth diseases.
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Also Friday, Bush signed the Animal Disease Risk Assessment, Prevention and Control Act of 2001, which creates a commission of agriculture, health and safety officials to ensure that the government is doing everything it can to keep mad cow and foot-and-mouth diseases out of the country.
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In his media briefing, Epperson listed the top issues facing the furniture industry in this order : the economy, Mad Cow and foot-and-mouth diseases and their impact on leather goods, the U . S .-China spy plane standoff and possible competition for High Point from Las Vegas.
