Canada Won't Budge on Tariff Threat Until U.S. Repeals Meat Rule
- Congressional officals in U.S. agree on steps to end labeling
- U.S. must repeal COOL, and `that's the botton line:' MacAulay
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Canadian trade officials are not taking retaliatory tariffs off the table until the U.S. moves to repeal country-of-origin labeling requirements for meat.
U.S. Congressional negotiators have agreed to a provision that would repeal the label requirements in an attempt to avoid $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs from Canada and Mexico. The label requirements, known by the acronym COOL, requires meat processors to show where an animal was born, raised and slaughtered.