<a href="http://www.cropdecisions.com/show_story.php?id=23135">CropDecisions.com: U.S. Expects New EU Biotech Laws To Further Dampen Ag Trade</a>As the European Union prepares to launch new laws in April to label and track all genetically modified food, U.S. farmers and government officials are warning they may turn out to be stronger trade barriers than the biotech approval ban they are intended to replace. Only nine biotech agriculture commodity varieties had been cleared for consumption by the EU when it shut down the approval process in 1998. That, according to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, has cost U.S. exporters 'a few hundred million dollars...a year' in corn sales alone.</p><p><a href="http://www.cropdecisions.com/show_story.php?id=23135">cropdecisions</a>