Canada seeks $3B in U.S. tariffs as meat labelling fight escalates

Canada has filed a request to impose more than $3 billion a year in tariffs on the United States in the latest move in an ongoing trade dispute.

The Canadian government has asked the World Trade Organization to authorize the punitive measures on a range of American goods.

The action hinges on whether the United States Congress amends a law at the centre of a three-country trade dispute.

Canada and Mexico are fighting U.S. meat-labelling rules that require a sticker identifying where livestock was born, raised and slaughtered...

This has been excerpted from 4 June article by CBC News.