WTO TELLS USA TO LOOSEN ITS BEEF AND PORK ORIGIN LABELLING LAWS
November 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled American beef and pork product origin labelling rules are so tight they breach a global trade agreement. A WTO disputes panel has backed a Canadian complaint about US rules insisting pork or beef products sold in America must be born, raised and slaughtered in the United States to carry a 'made-in-the-USA' label. It means beef or pork from livestock exported to the USA for fattening or immediate slaughter cannot be sold as an American product. The panel ruled this broke the WTO Agreement on Technical ...
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