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 importance of focusing efforts on prevention, as it is a more cost-effective strategy for governments and the food industry.
The
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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 help such nations meet international food safety, animal and plant health standards.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Trade Organization (WTO) director-general, thanked Germany for supporting
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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.
The G20 is a forum of 19 countries and the European Union that address economic issues. It has a role
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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 a cost-benefit analysis to investigate the welfare consequences of a regulatory non-tariff measure because of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) reasons
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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 third Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) Partnership Platform Meeting (PPM) in Senegal earlier this month. Faki said
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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 a U.S. appeal of its decision that COOL unfairly discriminates against meat imports and gives the advantage to domestic meat products.
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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 by Canada and Mexico in retaliatory tariffs are a dramatic overestimation of damages. The U.S. requested that the WTO Arbitrator
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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. In May, the World Trade Organization rejected a U.S. appeal of its decision that COOL on meat unfairly discriminates against
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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 animals were born, raised and slaughtered. “It doesn’t matter if you’re pro-COOL (and many are) or anti-COOL (and many are), you
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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 passed late Wednesday night by a 300-131 vote. Conaway introduced the bill on May 18 — the same day the World
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