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U.S. appeals WTO's stance on COOL regulations

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 30 2012

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has appealed a ruling made by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel against the United States in a dispute with Mexico and Canada over country-of-origin labeling (COOL) laws for beef and pork products

White House urged to appeal WTO ruling on COOL regulations

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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March 2 2012

Several consumer organizations have called on President Barack Obama (D) to appeal a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that favored Canada and Mexico in a dispute over U.S. country-of-origin-labeling (COOL) requirements for beef and pork products

U.S., EU announce organic trade partnership

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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European Union, USA
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February 17 2012

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has announced a “historic new partnership” with the European Union that recognizes its organic standards as essentially equivalent to those administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA

United States to appeal WTO ruling on dolphin-safe labeling of tuna

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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January 27 2012

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has announced that the United States will file an appeal in a dispute with Mexico before the World Trade Organization (WTO) over U.S. labeling provisions that allow producers meeting dolphin-safe requirements to label their products accordingly

EU urged to limit livestock transportation

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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January 13 2012

A petition reportedly signed by more than one million citizens has urged the European Union (EU) to impose stricter rules on the transportation of livestock intended for slaughter

European Commission faces backlash over proposed CAP reforms

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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European Union
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October 14 2011

The European Commission (EC) recently released 12 legal proposals designed to update the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by 2013, a move which has apparently elicited a strong response from environmentalists over reforms meant to “strengthen the competitiveness and the sustainability of agriculture” throughout the region

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

Upcoming Codex meeting to discuss food import, export inspections

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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USA
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September 30 2011

The Office for the Under Secretary for Food Safety, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have announced an October 4, 2011, public meeting in Washington, D.C., to provide information and receive public comments on draft U.S. positions to be discussed at the 19th session of the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS) on October 17-21 in Cairns, Australia

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

WTO nixes “dolphin-safe” labels on U.S. tuna

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Global, Mexico, USA
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September 16 2011

Concluding that “dolphin-safe” tuna product labels authorized by the U.S. Commerce Department “are more trade-restrictive than necessary to achieve a legitimate objective,” a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel has given a partial victory to Mexico, which filed a complaint in 2009 claiming that the labels were illegal because they excluded Mexican yellowfin tuna from the U.S. market and shut down one-third of its tuna fleet

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