Duly noted:

Canada's minister of international trade reports there's little progress in discussions with the United States aimed at resolving Canada's concerns over Mandatory U.S. Country of Origin Labelling.

CPA will be submitting hundreds of comments from our members and friends to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative tomorrow, urging them to vigorously defend country of origin labeling for meat and produce. 

Foreign countries want to pass-off their product as U.S. made, which is what it looks like in the grocery store's meat case because the "USDA-inspected" sticker is applied to all meat, not just U.S. meat.  Multinational agribusinesses get really irritated when consumers want to know where the meat is from.