Congress to Repeal Meat-Label Rules to Stop $1 Billion Penalty
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Congressional negotiators crafting a spending plan have agreed to a provision that would repeal country-of-origin labeling requirements for U.S. meat, an attempt to stave off $1 billion in Canadian and Mexican retaliation against American goods.
“I fully expect that it is in the omnibus. We have to get this done,” Senator Debbie Stabenow, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday. Language rolling back the labeling, known by the acronym COOL, isn’t final but would be part of a must-pass spending bill needed to keep the federal government operating.