RETALIATORY DUTIES ON USA MEAT EXPORTS CHALLENGED AT WTO

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) Disputes Settlement Body (DSB) has agreed to establish disputes settlement panels to rule on whether retaliatory duties imposed by Canada, China, and Mexico on US meat exports, imposed in response to America’s controversial steel and aluminium tariffs, break WTO rules. These retaliatory tariffs include 10% duties imposed by Canada on US-made prepared meals including poultry (spent fowl) and bovine meat; mixtures of spent fowl; spent fowl other than in cans or glass jars; and prepared or preserved bovine meat, not in cans or ...


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