The United States and Canada are resisting European Union (EU) calls to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) assessment of whether new laws restricting the sale of beef containing hormones has brought the EU into compliance with a WTO ruling on the issue.
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The EU claims that it is now following world trade laws by basing its hormone treated beef regulations on scientific conclusions, but Washington and Ottawa have dismissed these conclusions at a recent meeting of the WTO’s disputes settlement body.
They also officially declared that they would continue to maintain retaliatory tariffs worth €120m (US$147.0m) levied against EU food exports and refused to initiate a formal compliance assessment.
