date:Apr 05, 2012
The United States said it would appeal a World Trade Organization ruling against a law that requires country-of-origin labels on all meat sold in US grocery stores.
The labels became mandatory in 2009. A WTO panel ruled against the COOL provision of the law saying it violated technical barriers to trade. Canada and Mexico, which brought the case to the WTO, applauded the decision, arguing that shipments of cattle and hogs from those countries declined sharply after COOL went into effect.
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