1.   Besides employing innovative trade schemes, authorities say drug traffickers are shipping cash in everything from used cars and dolls to television sets and refrigerated containers of bull semen.

2.   But Moreno, a partner in Genetics Resources International, which exports bull semen, sees his opportunity in Latin America.

3.   Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville frequently receives bull semen, a gift it uses to fertilizes its cattle herd.

4.   The uses for bull semen are pretty obvious.

5.   A company that specialises in bull semen for artificial insemination of cattle has further streamlined the reproductive process and has made a clone.

6.   EU Commission President Jacques Santer announced a relaxation of the ban to exempt three cattle-derived products - bull semen, beef fat and beef-based gelatin.

7.   For years, the giant trading partners have irritated each other in dozens of ways, over issues from grain to fur coats to bull semen.

8.   Later Monday, the EU farm ministers may lift the ban on trade in bull semen and gelatin and tallow, two beef byproducts.

9.   Later Monday, the EU farm ministers may lift the ban on trade in bull semen and two beef byproducts, gelatin and tallow.

10.   On Monday they rejected even an easing of the ban by exempting tallow, bull semen and gelatin from the measure as proposed by the European Commission.