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Canada laments lack of progress in country of origin labeling talks |
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Written by Stumo
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
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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.
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Brian O'Shaughnessy is CPA's Chief Co-Chair and Manufacturing Co-Chair. We also have a Labor Co-Chair, Bob Baugh, and Agriculture Co-Chair, Joe Logan.
Brian, Chairman of Revere Copper Products, presented at the R-CALF USA annual convention on Friday, January 22, 2010. His presentation involved a discussion of how America became strong through making and growing things here, his history in mining and ranching, the strategic importance of continuing that course, and how we all need to work together to fix America's trade and economic problems.
The video presentation is available here. |
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