USDA cites confusion on beef export rules

Why can't we ever get along? It appears to me that when the USDA makes a new export rule, they should notify the exporting companies and clarify it to them. Apparently this didn't happen, because the American Veal and Lamb Company (Brooklyn-based) did't get the memo. They were unaware that they couldn't send beef to Japan that had a back bone cut in it (a.k.a the hotel rack) or for any other matter any Asain country.
Japan had just recently opened its doors again to our meat trades after the United States' first case of Mad Cow in 2003. Even though the veal was not contaminated with the Mad Cow disease many Asains believe that this is where the disease originates and spreads from. Then of course there's the second offense of putting "offal" in the shipment. Offal is the unedible parts of the carcass. Which demands the question, WHY? Why put it in the shipment if it's not edible. Perhaps the shipment of the wrong cut was accidental, but how could it be accidental to put the offals in there? All in all, it was preventable by notifying the two companies who had access to exporting to Japan. Now they know, but when will Japan open its' borders to our trade again??