By Alicia Karapetian on 5/15/2008 for Meatingplace.com
European Commission officials will reportedly propose lifting the ban on U.S. poultry imports so trade can resume by the fall, according to Reuters.
"The Commission will propose changes to EU legislation to eliminate the ban," said Daniel Price, who headed the American delegation to the Transatlantic Economic Council meeting held this week in Brussels.
Officials aim to have trade resume prior to the next TEC meeting in October.
The European Union banned poultry imports from the United States in 1997 owing to the U.S. use of chlorine in processing.
"I can tell you that there is strong support to solve this problem and I am basically optimistic," said EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen, leader of the European delegation to the TEC meeting.
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