Canada is seeking permission from the World Trade Organization to impose more than $3 billion a year in tariffs on products imported from the United States in the latest move in a trade battle.
Ottawa is taking the action because the U.S. has failed to repeal a contentious law requiring stringent country-of-origin labelling to identify where livestock was born, raised and slaughtered before being sold in the U.S.
Canada's meat industry says the law violates trade agreements and has cost producers billions of dollars. On May 18, the trade body agreed with that argument for the fourth time, and sided with Canada and Mexico over the issue.
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