World Trade Organization – Organization for Competitive Markets

WTO, COOL, TPP – The Alphabet Soup of the Loss of National Sovereignty

Mike Callicrate — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:57:11 +0000

By Gilles Stockton If you were not concerned about our loss of national sovereignty before, you should be now, following the World Trade Organization (WTO) recent ruling against the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). Although the WTO acknowledges that the United States has the right to label, and even though Canada has their own version of COOL, the WTO cites a very minor excuse to deny American consumers from knowing the origin of their meat. The labeling requirement, Read More ...

Ruling Upholding Meat Labeling Rule Vacated to Consider First Amendment Issue

Mike Callicrate — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:27:36 +0000

Reproduced with permission from The United States Law Week, 82 U.S.L.W. 1479 (Apr. 8, 2014). Copyright 2014 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) http://www.bna.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit April 4 agreed to rehear en banc a March 28 panel ruling that a group of meat industry representatives was unlikely to succeed in their challenge to a rule revising meat labeling requirements and therefore were not entitled to a preliminary injunction against Read More ...