EU complies with WTO over beef hormone ban
One of the most bitter transatlantic trade disputes of the past decade inched towards resolution on Wednesday, when the European Union announced it had complied with a 1999 World Trade Organisation ruling against its ban on beef hormones. Though Brussels refused to lift the ban, trade officials insisted that the original legislation banning the use of six growth-promoting hormones had been amended in a way that should satisfy both the complainants - the US and Canada - and the WTO.