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Subject: Anheuser ( Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc ) suspends beer exports to Burma

Friday April 25 5:49 PM EDT 

Anheuser ( Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc ) suspends beer
exports to Burma

CHICAGO, April 25 (Reuter) - Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc confirmed Friday that it
suspended
exports of its Budweiser brand beer to Burma after the United States
government enacted trade
sanctions against the country. 

"Anheuser-Busch suspended its exports of Budweiser to Burma April 22 when
the U.S. government
enacted trade sanctions," said Stephen Burrows, president and chief
operating officer of
Anheuser-Busch International Inc, a subsidiary of the St. Louis-based brewer. 

"Budweiser had been exported for two years to the country without any
company investment or
employees working in Burma," he added in a statement. 

Burma activists had said earlier that Anheuser had pulled out of that country. 

On Tuesday the U.S. government announced a ban on new investment in Burma as
a protest against
human rights abuses by Rangoon's military government.