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COOL opponents vow to press on
US Dept. of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) call to
finalize a March 12 proposed rule on country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for
meat and poultry products is “incomprehensible and recklessly disregards the
potential adverse retaliatory trade responses from Canada and Mexico”—
particularly since it contains no changes despite a massive outpouring of concern from affected companies and major trading partners, in the view of the
American Meat Institute.
Responding to complaints by Mexico and Canada, a World Trade Organization panel previously determined the 2009 version of Mandatory COOL
violated the United States’ WTO obligations. In March 2013, USDA proposed a new rule the agency claimed would bring the US into compliance,

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mental economic benefits from labeling of production steps, which is one of
the key elements of the final rule, will be comparatively small relative to those
discussed in the mid-2009 final rule,” Dopp said.
Another aspect of the rule that’s extremely disappointing is it immediately
goes into effect upon publication in the Federal Register. “It also means everybody in the industry who will be affected is going to have to begin making
changes [in order to comply], he said.” ■

Triumph Foods to expand
pork facility
Triumph Foods announced plans for a $7.5 million expansion at the
company’s St. Joseph, Mo., pork plant. The project will add 11,000 sq. ft. to
the facility in addition to new equipment. The expansion will add about 105
new jobs.
This is the second major expansion for the pork processor and exporter.
In October 2012, the company announced plans to build a 30,000 sq.-ft. ad-

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