WTO Retaliation Threatened as EU Seal Ban Draws Closer

EU committee vote slams shut loophole Canada hoped to exploit.

Published March 4, 2009

Canada's Fisheries Minister Gail Shea says the government is prepared to take the European Union to the WTO after a European Parliament committee closed a legal loophole that many hoped would have protected Canadian seal products from a pending bloc-wide ban.

"We have told [the Europeans] repeatedly that we will exercise all our options," Ms. Shea said in an interview Monday. "And if that means going...

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