PRESSURE PILES ON USA TO SCRAP COOL RULES AS AMERICAN WTO APPEAL FAILS
May 26th, 2015
CANADIAN meat industry officials and politicians have redoubled their calls for the US to liberalise its country of origin labelling (COOL) rules for meat and livestock, now the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has delivered a final negative ruling on the American system.The WTO’s appellate body confirmed that US COOL rules broke its Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) as regards livestock from Canadian and Mexico, and the meat produced from them. Ottawa and Mexico City argued that the labelling system effectively discriminated against the Canadian and ...
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