A shipment of meat from Northern Ireland is on its way to the U.S., decades after a mad cow disease scare prompted the U.S. to block all imports of UK beef.
The shipment, the first since 1996, comes amid negotiations toward a bilateral trade deal. An audit by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service in March led to the U.S. lifting the ban on beef imports from all of the UK—England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The Trump administration wants Britain to remove a ban on imports of American beef produced with artificial growth hormones.