Participants says the Canada U-S International Round table discussions were informative.

Canadian and American beef producers met this week at Canadian Western Agribition.

U-S Representatives from Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota and Nebraska took part.

Linda Chezen is from Indiana and is with the U-S National Cattlemen’s Association

"I  have no problem in repealing it. I do have a problem with labeling the source of food because we also freely import from other countries - not just Canada," she said.

She says a large part of the pressure for COOL comes from consumers Meanwhile, Bill Baldwin is with the Nebraska Farm Bureau.

"American Farm Bureau's current policy is we support COOL if it complies with the parameters with the WTO - which is doesn't. So, I guess we basically don't support COOL," he said.

Bill Huber with the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association says the North American cattle industry operates as an integrated market and by working together on shared issued and eliminating trade barriers such as COOL both our countries can benefit greatly.

The WTO is expected to release its latest report early next month on the value of retaliatory tariffs for Canada.