Illicit trade and food fraud can cause considerable damage to the international market and public health, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Contributors to a WTO report underlined the
Germany has donated almost €3 million ($3.2 million) to boost safe trade in developing and least-developed countries (LDCs).
The €2.85 million ($3.1 million) sum until 2025 will
An inability of some countries to meet food safety standards of other nations and the associated border rejections contribute to food loss and waste, according to an expert policy brief.
Implications of trade policy are related to consumer preferences and market structure, according to an analysis by an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies.
Mahdi Ghodsi used
The head of the African Union Commission (AUC) has urged countries in the region to tackle the impact of aflatoxins.
Moussa Faki Mahamat made the comments at the opening of
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has authorized Canada and Mexico to charge the U.S. $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs for country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat. Last spring, WTO rejected
Last week, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) filed a legal brief in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute over mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL), arguing that the $3 billion sought
Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and John Hoeven (R-ND) introduced a bill Thursday that would remove certain meats from the mandatory country-of-origin (COOL) labeling program and institute a voluntary label instead.
The Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing Thursday to discuss country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for meat, which requires that packages sold in the U.S. indicate the country, or countries, where
The House of Representatives has voted to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork, and chicken. Texas Republican Rep. Michael Conaway’s Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015
The Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization on Friday ruled that U.S. country-of-origin labeling laws (COOL) discriminated against meat importers such as Canada and Mexico, but that U.
The number of food safety and plant health trade barriers plaguing U.S. agricultural exports is way up, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a congressional committee recently.
“In the last
