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Viewing cable 08TOKYO3420, CODEL BOSWELL: DIET MEMBERS POINT FINGER AT U.S.

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08TOKYO3420 2008-12-16 09:04 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Tokyo
VZCZCXRO7244
RR RUEHHM
DE RUEHKO #3420 3510904
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 160904Z DEC 08
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9493
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 6861
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 2935
RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI 1109
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 2862
RUEHGP/AMEMBASSY SINGAPORE 7291
RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 0129
RUEHHK/AMCONSUL HONG KONG 6655
RUEHIN/AIT TAIPEI 7208
RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE WASHINGTON DC
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON DC
UNCLAS TOKYO 003420 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
H FOR CODEL BOSWELL 
STATE PASS USTR FOR AUSTR CUTLER, MBEEMAN, EHOLLOWAY, 
JDOHERTY, AND RMEYER 
USDA FOR DUS TERPSTRA, USDA/FAS SHALE, USDA/FAS DBERMAN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAGR ETRD ECON PREL JA
SUBJECT: CODEL BOSWELL: DIET MEMBERS POINT FINGER AT U.S. 
FOR NO PROGRESS ON U.S. BEEF 
 
REF: TOKYO 3338 
 
1. (SBU) During a December 13 roundtable discussion, Japanese 
Diet members suggested to Codel Boswell that it is the USG 
that is responsible for a lack of progress to lift Japan's 
partial ban on imports of U.S. beef and beef products. 
Yoshio Yatsu, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's 
(LDP) General Agricultural Policy Council and former 
Agriculture Minister, said the GOJ has proposed previously 
that it might consider somewhat relaxing restrictions on U.S. 
beef to possibly allow cuts of beef from animals up to 
30-months of age (compared to 20-months under the current 
technical agreement).  However, the USG's position that 
market access for U.S. beef be based on World Organization 
for Animal Health (OIE) standards has resulted in a 
stalemate, asserted Diet member and former Agriculture 
Minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi.  The GOJ is unable to move 
the beef issue on to Japan's Food Safety Commission (FSC) for 
further deliberation until after the bilateral Technical 
Working Group established to explore ways to fully reopen 
Japan's market to U.S. beef and beef products finalizes its 
report from meetings held in 2007, he said.  (Note:  USDA 
notified the GOJ on October 16, 2008 that it considers the 
Technical Working Group process to have concluded.  End 
note.) 
 
2.  (SBU) Wakabayashi claimed Japan's offer of 30-months is 
"very reasonable."  Yatsu pointed to the strong reaction and 
street demonstrations by Koreans protesting Seoul's deal with 
Washington to allow no age restrictions on U.S. beef imports 
as an unacceptable outcome for Japan.  We must proceed 
incrementally and on the basis of additional study and 
information to assuage Japanese consumers' concerns, Yatsu 
advised.  Codel Boswell urged the GOJ to work expeditiously 
with the USG to resolve the U.S. beef issue. 
 
3.  (SBU) Note:  Japanese officials have suggested in the 
past that we accept a 30-month age limit on U.S. beef exports 
to Japan.  The former Agriculture Ministers' comments made no 
mention of how the two sides would get to all ages, all cuts, 
by a date certain.  In our ongoing dialogue with the GOJ on 
U.S. beef, including discussions between the President and 
then Prime Minister Fukuda at the July 2008 G8 Summit in 
Toyako, we have maintained that Japan's regulation of U.S. 
beef imports should be science-based and consistent with OIE 
guidelines.  In May 2007, the OIE designated the U.S. as a 
controlled-risk country for Bovine Spongiform Encelphalopathy 
(BSE).  OIE guidelines indicate all beef and beef products 
from controlled-risk countries may be imported provided 
certain tissues are removed prior to export -- i.e., 
specified risk materals or SRMs.  End note. 
 
4.  (U) Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Livestock, 
Dairy, and Poultry Leonard Boswell (D-IA), accompanied by 
House Agriculture Committee colleagues Robert Goodlatte 
(R-VA), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Adrian Smith (R-NE), and Steve 
King (R-IA), visited Japan December 13-15 to raise 
agriculture-related issues.  In addition to their roundtable 
discussion with members of Japan's parliament, they also met 
with the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, visited a 
Wagyu Beef farm in Tochigi Province, and the first national 
retail outlet to resume sales of U.S. beef after Japan 
partially lifted its ban on imports in July 2007.  The 
delegation's discussions with Diet members on WTO-related 
modalities for agriculture and Japan's food security concerns 
reported septel. 
 
5.  (U) Codel Boswell did not have an opportunity to clear 
this message before departure from Post. 
SCHIEFFER