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At the first negotiating session on a final version of the new $500 billion U.S. farm bill, several lawmakers said COOL should be revised or repealed.

The change is due to country-of-origin labeling rules which require labels on meat packages to show where an animal was born, raised and slaughtered.

Canada: "The U.S. government continues its unfair trade practices, which are severely damaging to Canadian industry and jobs."

As part of a lawsuit seeking to block implementation of COOL, nine organizations asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to grant a preliminary injunction.

In their complaint, the organizations explained that the final rule violates the United States Constitution by compelling speech in the form of costly and detailed labels on meat products.

The USDA has approved a label for meat and liquid egg products that includes a claim about the absence of genetically engineered products.

Canada announced plans to impose tariffs on a list of U.S. products in retaliation for the COOL (country-of-origin labeling) requirement for meat products.

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service today issued a Final Rule to modify the labeling provisions for the mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) program.

That amount is the annual cost to Canada's beef and pork industry since the U.S. imposed mandatory country of origin labeling requirements in 2008.