WTO rules against U.S. meat labelling laws

Canada has won an important battle in an ongoing trade dispute with the United States over meat labelling laws that have hurt the beef and pork industries.

The World Trade Organization has ruled that U.S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) rules discriminate against exports from Canada and Mexico.

The rules, which went into effect in 2008 and were updated last year, are blamed by the Canadian beef industry for reducing meat exports to the U.S. by half.

This has been excerpted from the 20 October 2014 issue of CBC News and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wto-rules-against-u-s-meat-labelling-laws-1.2805904