Trade

Call for beef ban to be tabled as China’s premier visits Ireland

Chief of think tank Asia Matters said he is hoping the resumption of Irish beef exports is high on the agenda when Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hosts Chinese premier Li Qiang meet at Farmleigh House

Li Qiang, China’s premier, is meeting Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for bilateral talks in Dublin.

The head of an Ireland-Asia think tank has said he hopes the ban on beef exports to China will be on the table when Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hosts Chinese premier Li Qiang this week.

China’s second most powerful politician after President Xi Jinping will meet Mr Varadkar for bilateral talks in Dublin on Wednesday.

Beef exports from Ireland to China were suspended when a case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) was discovered ...