The next potential creeping Canada-U.S. trade beef: beef

Canada has the option to strike the U.S. with about $1-billion in retaliatory tariffs if it reimposes mandatory country-of-origin labelling for beef.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, bottom right, will be tasked with finding a way to reimpose COOL if a Senate bill passes. However, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, top right, says she has received assurances from the U.S. that it will abide by WTO rulings.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Aidan Chamandy and photograph courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture

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BY NEIL MOSS

December 8, 2021

As more and more Canadian exports to the U.S. are under threat from a protectionist White House and Congress, a thought-to-be-resolved issue of country-of-origin labelling for Canadian beef exports has re-emerged. In discussions with American counterparts, the Canadian government has spotlighted th...

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