Canada Wins World Trade Organization Case on U.S. Country-of-Origin Labelling

November 18, 2011

The following is excerpted from an 18 November 2011 news release by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.

The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, and the Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture, today met with livestock producers and processors at Soderglen Ranches Ltd., one of Canada’s largest purebred seedstock cattle ranches. The ministers welcomed the clear victory for Canada’s livestock industry represented by the WTO ruling that the U.S. Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL) measure is inconsistent with its WTO trade obligations...

This release is available in its entirety at:

http://www.international.gc.ca/media_commerce/comm/news-communiques/2011/349.aspx?view=d

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Topic(s): 
Rules of Origin & Trade Agreements / Trade Agreements
Information Source: 
Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
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