The U.S. Congress passed a broad 2016 spending package that includes the repeal of a meat labeling law in order to avoid more than $1 billion in trade retaliation by Mexico and Canada. The omnibus spending bill is on its way to President Barack Obama to be signed into law. U.S. trade groups supported scraping the country-of-origin-labeling rule on beef, pork and poultry after the World Trade Organization recently ruled they discriminated against imported meat.
