date:Dec 18, 2015
The US Congress is expected to repeal mandatory country-of-origin meat labeling (COOL), which according to the World Trade Organization (WTO) violates trade agreements, and allowed Canada and Mexico to impose a tariff of $1bn in retaliation on the US.
COOL was put into law in the 2002 Farm bill, and is intended to offer greater transparency to consumers on the food they purchase.
Congress bolstered the law in 2013. COOL requires imported beef and pork products sold in the US to carry informati