News - World Trade Organization

A year end spending bill, signed by the President Friday has ended Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling for muscle cuts of pork and beef and ground pork and beef.

The National Pork Producers Council warns time is running out for the United States to avoid trade retaliation from Canada and Mexico related to U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling, and is urging swift Congressional action to repeal the meat labelling provisions of the law.

The National Pork Producers Council warns, unless action taken by the U.S. Senate addresses Canadian and Mexican concerns over Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling, retaliatory tariffs are imminent.

The Minnesota Pork Producers Association is calling for full repeal of U.S. Country of Origin Labelling requirements for beef, pork and poultry.

The National Pork Producers Council says the only sure way for the U.S. Senate to ward off retaliatory tariffs being imposed on U.S. products exported into Canada and Mexico is to repeal provisions of U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling that pertain to beef and pork.

The president of Paragon Economics says failure to bring Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling into compliance with World Trade rules could negatively impact North American live hog markets.

Manitoba’s Minister of Agriculture is hopeful the latest World Trade Organization ruling on U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling will result in a return to historical patterns of trade between Canada and the U.S. in cattle and hogs.

A World Trade Organization appeal panel is now hearing the final U.S. appeal of rulings that U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling violates American trading obligations.

The president of the National Pork Producers Council remains hopeful the U.S. Congress will take action to resolve the Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling issue before Canada and Mexico are granted authority to impose retaliatory tariffs on imported U.S. products.

Despite the latest U.S. effort to preserve Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling Manitoba Pork remains hopeful the issue can be resolved without the need for Canada and Mexico to impose retaliatory tariffs on imported U.S. products.