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NFU questions Canada in WTO final numbers

The National Farmers Union says the World Trade Organization’s decision on how much Mexico and Canada can impose on U.S. products because of Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) reveals a lot about motives.

“When you look at the number Canada was saying that they had $3-Billion (in losses) and it comes back a third of that, you can see that this was clearly a scare tactic they kept trying to use to push our Congress and to push our senators and congressmen into doing something they wanted rather than representing our constituents,” says NFU’s Chandler Goule.

Goule says the NFU supports mandatory Country of Origin Labeling but believes the Hoeven/Stabenow bill in the Senate would solve the problem by making it voluntary.

Goule tells Brownfield Ag News the worst problem is having the WTO make decisions on major U.S. issues, “And you really begin to wonder, who runs this country?  You know, the U.S. Congress and the administration or are we at the mercy of the WTO?”
Goule says there’s a special meeting of the WTO December 18th to hear what U.S. products Canada and Mexico want to impose retaliatory tariffs upon.

AUDIO: Interview with Chandler Goule