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Mexico awarded $163.23 million annually in retaliation against U.S. in tuna fight at WTO

April 25, 2017 at 2:03 PM
An arbitrator at the World Trade Organization has determined that Mexico is entitled to levy trade restrictions on imports from the U.S. worth $163.23 million per year, the latest development in an eight-year battle over U.S. dolphin-safe tuna labeling requirements. The arbitrator made the decision based on a U.S. action from 2013 -- which modified a 2012 measure originally faulted by the WTO -- but did not make a compliance judgment on the United States’ 2016 dolphin-safe tuna labeling rule...


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