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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

WTO dials back Canada’s COOL retaliation

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Canada will be able to take only about a third of the revenge it asked the World Trade Organization to authorize over the United States’ country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law. An arbitration panel of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) ruled Monday that Canada and Mexico may now ask the DSB to authorize annual retaliatory tariffs, […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

MacAulay favours TPP deal, poised for trade fight with U.S.

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Winnipeg | Reuters –– Canada’s new agriculture minister said Tuesday he likely will support the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated by the previous government, and is inclined to retaliate against the U.S. over a long-standing meat-labeling dispute. The Liberal government, elected last month, has not taken a firm position yet on whether it will support TPP, which […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets

COOL saga winding down, but not over yet

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CNS Canada –– The seven-year saga of U.S. country of origin labelling (COOL) rules and their adverse impact on Canada’s livestock sector may be nearing its final chapter, but the conclusion still needs to be written. After numerous complaints and appeals with the World Trade Organization, the COOL regulations in place since 2008 have been […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

NAFTA countries debate COOL harm at WTO

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Canada and Mexico have made their case before a World Trade Organization arbitration panel on how much tariff revenge they’re allowed to impose on U.S. goods over country-of-origin labelling (COOL). The WTO “has ruled four times that the U.S.’s COOL rules are discriminatory,” Canadian Pork Council chairman Rick Bergmann said in a council release Wednesday […] Read more
CCA Report: Drought concerns and trade talks
Beef Cattle, CCA reports

CCA Report: Drought concerns and trade talks

From the August 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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It’s been a busy summer for the Canadian Cattlemen Association (CCA), with plenty of activity on a number of ongoing files. CCA officials were in Charlottetown, P.E.I., for the annual July meeting of the federal, provincial and territorial ministers of agriculture, where workforce issues, social licence and the extreme dry conditions in pockets of Alberta […] Read more
Uncertainties and potential worries loom large as the 2015 calf crop's fall run begins.
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Editorial: August anxieties

There are a lot of balls in the air as we start another fall run

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If you only look at prices charts it’s a great time to be in the cattle business. It’s only when you start looking longer-term that you see plenty of reasons to be anxious for the beef industry this August. As of this issue going to press Canada is in what appears to be the final […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Prime cuts

As predicted, COOL fight isn’t over yet

Prime Cuts from the June 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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COOL’s ultimate demise is finally at hand. But it might not come as quickly as one might hope for. That’s because COOL’s fate now lies in the hands of American lawmakers. While the U.S. House of Representatives has already acted with commendable speed, the U.S. Senate is likely to drag its feet until the day […] Read more
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Livestock

Voluntary COOL still not OK: Ritz and Fast

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Two U.S. senators have introduced a bipartisan bill which would replace mandatory country-of-origin labelling for meat within a voluntary program, but it doesn’t impress Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and International Trade Minister Ed Fast. The bill is intended to bring the U.S. into compliance with a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling in May that the […] Read more
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Gerry Ritz.
Beef Cattle, CCA reports

CCA Report: A COOL victory for Canadian beef producers

From the June 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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On May 18, in a historic and decisive victory for Canada’s cattle industry, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a fourth and final ruling confirming that U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) discriminates against U.S. imports of Canadian cattle and hogs. The ruling effectively ends the eight-year legal battle initiated by the […] Read more
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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. seeks arbitration at WTO over COOL-related sanctions

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The U.S. government has mounted a new defense at the World Trade Organization for its meat label law, this time seeking arbitration against Canada’s request for trade sanctions. The WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) had been scheduled Wednesday to hear Canadian trade officials’ request to authorize over $3 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods, in formal retaliation […] Read more

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