Resolution

Department:  Agriculture and Agr-Food Canada & Canadian Federation of Agriculture

WHEREAS the United States has imposed country of origin labelling requirements that adversely affect Canadian livestock and that have been deemed unacceptable by World Trade Organization Panels;

WHEREAS if the US does not comply with the Panel rulings, Canada may be granted the right under the WTO to introduce retaliatory tariffs on unrelated products;

WHEREAS Canada’s livestock industry has suffered immense damage from the US measures and any retaliatory tariff is designed to put pressure on the US to change its practices and not provide a direct benefit to the adversely affected livestock sector;

BE IT RESOLVED that if Canada introduces tariffs, that funding equivalent to the amount raised by the tariffs be made incrementally available to the livestock sector for research and market development initiatives.