Thursday, May 17, 2012

Mexico, Canada Prevail Over U.S. In WTO Country Of Origin Fight

In a confidential interim report, a World Trade Organization panel has sided with Mexico and Canada by finding that a U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law violates the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) by discriminating against imports of livestock and creating more obstacles to trade than necessary to achieve the law's objective of informing consumers, according to informed sources.


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