Monday, May 18, 2015

Oil Well Deaths/ Art Returned/ Meat Origin


Missoulian: Art acquired in WWII Germany returned by Montana brothers
Art Restitution Ceremony
“For decades, the United States has worked to right history, to restore art and cultural property wrongfully displaced during World War II. We’ve been instrumental in creating the 1998 Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Looted Art and have worked to return art unlawfully removed from collections during the U.S. post-war occupation of Germany. Today we have the privilege of continuing that effort. These five spectacular treasures that were removed from Germany after World War II are returned to the German Government so that they can be restored to their rightful owners.”


Missoulian: World Trade body rejects country of origin labels on meat
UNITED STATES – CERTAIN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELLING (COOL) REQUIREMENTS
“These disputes concern country of origin labelling (COOL) of meat products. The products at issue are imported Canadian cattle and hogs and imported Mexican cattle, which are used in the United States to produce beef and pork.5  In the original proceedings, the Appellate Body upheld the panel's finding under Article 2.1 of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) that the "original COOL measure"6  modified the conditions of competition in the US market to the detriment of imported livestock by creating an incentive in favour of processing exclusively domestic livestock and a disincentive against handling imported livestock.” 

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