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WTO Faults Already Repealed U.S. Ban On Beef Imports From Argentina

July 30, 2015 at 8:53 PM
The World Trade Organization last Friday (July 24) ruled against a U.S. ban on live animal and fresh beef imports from Argentina that Washington opted to repeal as the dispute was being argued, finding that the prohibition had discriminated against Argentine imports and that the U.S. had contradicted an international animal health standard in doing so. Specifically, the panel ruled that the U.S. had violated up to eight articles of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures relating...

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