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TTB issues final rule designating Cachaça as type of rum

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 1 2013

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has issued a final rule designating "Cachaça" as a type of rum and a distinctive product of

Criminal charges follow investigation into illegal importation of honey

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 1 2013

A U.S. attorney in Illinois has announced charges filed against two companies and five individuals in a five-year investigation of imports that

Canada proposes amendments to meat-inspection regulations

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Canada
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April 13 2012

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has proposed amendments to its federal meat-inspection rules to better align them with the regulations and policiesof major trading partners such as the United States and the European Union

Arbitrator orders may 2013 deadline for U.S. COOL rules to comply with WTO ruling

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Global, USA
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December 7 2012

A World Trade Organization (WTO) arbitrator has determined that the United States must conform its country-of-origin-labeling (COOL) rules in accordance with an earlier ruling by May 23, 2013, finding that 10 months was a reasonable time for implementation

FDA debars importer after guilty plea for seafood mislabeling

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 1 2013

The Food and Drug Administration has debarred seafood importer Richard Stowell from importing food into the United States for three years based on

U.S. and Mexico resolve cross-border trucking dispute under NAFTA

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Mexico, USA
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July 15 2011

The United States and Mexico have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that resolves a long-haul, cross-border trucking dispute involving “retaliatory tariffs” on more than $2 billion in U.S. exports, including food and agricultural products

WTO to field dispute over India’s restrictions on U.S. poultry

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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India, USA
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June 29 2012

The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently agreed to a convene a dispute settlement panel to investigate India’s restrictions on the importation of U.S. poultry, eggs and other agriculture products purportedly due to concerns over avian influenza

Court finds honey importers improperly served, quashes summonses

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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October 7 2011

A federal court in Illinois has determined that the government did not allege facts sufficient to pierce the corporate veil of related U.S. and foreign corporations and thus could not bring the foreign corporations before the court on charges of avoiding $80 million in customs duties on honey imported into the United States between 2002 and 2009

Del Monte dismisses lawsuit seeking to lift cantaloupe import restrictions

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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September 30 2011

Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. has filed a notice of dismissal in a Maryland federal court after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to lift the import alert it imposed on cantaloupes from Guatemala that had purportedly been linked to a Salmonella outbreak

Bayer AG seeks to overturn $1.5 million jury award in GM rice case

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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July 30 2010

Contending that conventional farmers’ claims for damages from the contamination of U.S. rice crops with a genetically modified (GM) variant are preempted by federal law, Bayer AG has filed an appeal to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals from an adverse jury verdict rendered in bellwether cases that are part of multidistrict litigation involving thousands of farmers

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