1.   Blair had postponed setting the date for a month until an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in British livestock was brought under control.

2.   Canada banned meat, milk and livestock imports from Britain, and Australia suspended imports of British livestock products.

3.   China banned imports of some British livestock Friday.

4.   Foot-and-mouth disease poses no danger to humans but it has effectively closed export markets for British livestock.

5.   Hoehn said imports of British livestock will remain banned for the time being.

6.   The first consignment of British livestock to be exported for three years is due at a slaughterhouse in Cornwall, southwest England, on Monday.

7.   The epidemic has shut British livestock out of markets worldwide, and put its European trading partners on alert.

8.   The United Arab Emirates banned imports of British livestock Wednesday.

9.   British livestock farmers could only standby as prices went into freefall and the market for British beef began to collapse.