USTR seeks consultations over Canadian store-shelf ban on U.S. wines
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is requesting consultations with Canada at the World Trade Organization over a provincial rule that prohibits imported wine from being sold on the same shelves in grocery stores as domestic wine, claiming that the group of laws that create the ban violates the national treatment principle of WTO law, according to a Jan. 18 USTR announcement. USTR is taking issue with a collection of laws enacted by British Columbia that allow wine made...