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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will suspend imports of U.S. Beef from Thursday as of a fixed U.S. Instance of barmy cow disease, Vice Agriculture Minister Rusman Heriawan told Reuters.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest countrypooo, simply accounted in place of 0.6 percent of U.S. Beef exports with the purpose of were worth as regards $17 million in 2011, according to U.S. Government information.

Key export markets in place of U.S. Beef, from Canada to Japan, believed on Wednesday they would maintain to import U.S. Beef, behind U.S. Powers that be told importers in attendance was veto danger with the purpose of meat from an infected Californian dairy cow would enter the food shackle. Two South Korean retailers halted sales.

Heriawan gave veto moment in time frame in place of Indonesia's wildcat strike of imports, motto the government would stop in place of added developments.

He believed U.S. Beef is largely used by hotels and high-level side restaurants. Indonesia plus imports beef from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, as well as live Australian cattle. Australia hovering its live cattle exports to Indonesia take day behind a tape performance cows being beaten and whipped formerly slaughter.

After the month-long Australian embargo, Indonesia believed it will seek to incise its cattle and beef import quota by 30 percent in place of this day as part of pains to befall self-sufficient by 2014. However, beef consumption is seen rising 13 percent this day.

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