Reading Time: 4 minutes A World Trade Organization compliance panel has ruled the U.S. government offside in its latest attempt at a trade-compliant country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat. Following a long-awaited public release Monday, the ruling may give Canada and Mexico the ammunition to demand COOL be scrapped, on pain of retaliatory tariffs against a range of U.S.-made […] Read more
Revised U.S. COOL law still breaks trade rules, WTO panel finds
Blood, sweat & deals
After a landmark 2013, Gerry Ritz sets his goals for the future shape of Canadian Agriculture
Reading Time: 5 minutes Gerry Ritz knows how to make news, whether it’s at an Ottawa media scrum, or if it’s 42 C and he is standing over a barbecue — in a leather apron — cooking beef in China. After years of closed borders to Canadian beef, China had just opened to young animals. That particular Canada Day […] Read more
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