WTO rules against US dolphin-safe labels

Washington

THE World Trade Organization found on Tuesday that US rules on dolphin-safe labels for canned tuna run counter to international trade laws, siding with Mexico in a long-running dispute and opening the door to retaliation against US exports.

The ruling, which the United States said it would appeal, upholds Mexico's complaint that revamped US labelling rules are still discriminatory because they disqualify Mexican tuna from bearing dolphin-safe labels, unlike other countries' tuna.