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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing Bush administration on Thursday cranked up pressure on the European Union to drop its ban on bee rom U.S. cattle treated with growth hormones by changing the list o $116.8 million worth o European ood products hit with sanctions in the dispute. WorldThe EU reacted angrily to the mo e, owing to challenge it at the World Trade Organization." or o er a decade, we ha e been trying to resol e this dispute with the EU but our e orts ha e gone nowhere," U.S. bee industry, while addressing the economic impact o such long-standing duties on U.S.
interests."The EU called the mo e illegal and said it eared the action could lead to the United States changing its sanctions list e ery six months."Transatlantic trade needs champions, not sanctions," EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton said in a statement. "This action is most regrettable in the iew o many attempts by the EU to ind a solution to the long-standing dispute o er hormone-treated bee ."A large number o EU exporters will be hit with these illegal sanctions. Trade Representati e's o ice said on October 31 it was considering changing the decade-old retaliation list.The United States imposed the duties a ter winning a World Trade Organization case in the late 1990s in which it argued the European Union's ban on bee rom cattle treated with arti icial growth hormones was not supported by science and inconsistent with WTO rules.The EU amended its ban in 2003 and iled another case challenging the continued application o the retaliatory tari s. The WTO appellate body issued a decision in October that the United States says upheld its continuing right to impose trade measures on EU products.The European Commission, which o ersees the bloc's trade policy, said its decision to ban U.S. hormone-treated bee was based on scienti ic ad ice and not protectionism.Earlier in the long-running case, U.S.
