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| https://www.roberts.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=d7f4e7da-2166-4b7f-a929-43b8c112447c | Roberts Secures COOL Repeal in Funding Bill, U.S. Exports to Escape Retaliation | 2015-12-16 | 2015 | 2015-12 | Republican | House | KS | Pat Roberts | R000307 | www.roberts.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce the inclusion of mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) repeal in the year-end funding bill, currently awaiting a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. COOL, first authorized in the 2002 Farm Bill and amended in the 2008 Farm Bill, was found by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to violate trade agreements made between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.The WTO announced last week that Canada and Mexico can soon as early as this Friday, Dec. 18 legally retaliate against American-made exported goods in the form of over $1 billion in tariffs. For several years now, the writing has been on the wall that U.S. COOL requirements for meat were doomed at the WTO. Since its inception, I have warned that retaliation was coming, and Im pleased American agriculture and businesses will escape these tariffs, said Chairman Roberts. I have actively opposed COOL from the beginning, in large part due to these very trade ramifications, offering legislation to repeal the damaging law. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Conaway swiftly led the House to approve repeal, and now I hope the Senate can pass this legislation in time to avoid devastating tariffs. With passage, American farmers, ranchers and small businesses will finally get the certainty they deserve from unnecessary trade retaliation. During the 2014 Farm Bill negotiations, Senator Roberts pushed for COOL repeal. In June 2015, the Senate Agriculture Committee held ahearingon COOL and trade retaliation. Chairman Roberts has alsospokenon the Senate floor regarding COOL retaliation and introducedlegislationto repeal COOL and prevent retaliation. # # # | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |