The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to repeal country-of-origin labeling requirements for beef, pork and chicken products. The vote comes in the threat of more than $3 billion retaliatory tariffs from Canada and Mexico after the World Trade Organization ruled that the U.S. COOL law was discriminatory against products from those countries.
WTO’s appellate body said that the regulation runs contrary to U.S. trade obligations and imposes a burden on meat producers that have to keep up with the recordkeeping requirements, reports The Hill.