http://www.ustr.gov/node/64/205,11,12,320/10en-usWashington, D.C. -- The Office of the United States Trade Representative announced today that the United States has requested North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) dispute settlement consultations with Mexico regarding Mexico's failure to move its "dolphin safe" labeling dispute from the World Trade Organization (WTO) to the NAFTA, as requested by the United States and as required by Article 2005 of the NAFTA.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/november/united-states-initiates-nafta-dispute-mexico-over11/05/2009European Union and Mexico Join the United States in Requesthttp://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/november/united-states-requests-wto-panel-against-china-ov11/04/2009Dallas, Texas - Today United States Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk met with Canada's Trade Minister Stockwell Day and Mexico's Secretary of the Economy Gerardo Ruiz Mateos to conduct the 2009 meeting of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Free Trade Commission.http://www.ustr.gov/united-states-canada-and-mexico-conclude-nafta-ministerial10/19/2009Dallas, Texas -- Ambassador Ron Kirk, United States Trade Representative; Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, Mexico's Secretary of Economy; and the Honorable Stockwell Day, Canada's Minister of International Trade, are pleased to release the following Joint Statement, which outlines the overall results of the October 19, 2009 meeting of the NAFTA Free Trade Commission (FTC), in Dallas, Texas.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/october/joint-statement-2009-nafta-commission-meeting10/19/2009Washington, D.C. - United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk will host a meeting of the Free Trade Commission of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Dallas, Texas, on October 19, 2009. Ambassador Kirk will meet with his Ministerial colleagues, Canada's Trade Minister Stockwell Day and Mexico's Secretary of the Economy Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, to discuss ways to ensure that the benefits of our trilateral trade and economic relationship are widely shared and sustainable.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/october/ustr-ron-kirk-host-north-american-free-trade-agree10/15/2009Washington, D.C. - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today issued a statement regarding Canada's request to establish a dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to review their claims in a dispute regarding country of origin labeling (COOL) required by the 2008 Farm Bill for certain agricultural products. The panel request will be considered at the October 23, 2009, meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body.From Secretary Vilsack and Ambassador Kirk:http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/october/vilsack-kirk-comment-canadian-panel-request-regard10/07/2009Washington, D.C. - United States Trade Representative Ronald Kirk today announced that an arbitral tribunal has rejected Canadian claims that an offer to pay the U.S.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/september/tribunal-finds-canada-failed-cure-breach-softwoo09/28/2009WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk joined his NAFTA counterparts in writing to the environment ministers from the United States, Canada and Mexico to encourage greater cooperation between the NAFTA Free Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) on working to ensure that the trade and environmental policies of each of the three countries are mutually supportive.  In commenting on the letters, Ambassador Kirk noted that "improving cooperation between the FTC http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/june/trade-ministers-call-greater-cooperation-making-trade06/24/2009Washington, D.C. - Today, United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk congratulated the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for their decisions to recognize each other's national organic program as equivalent. The decisions of both national regulatory authorities allow products certified to either U.S. or Canadian standards to be sold or labeled in both countries as organically produced.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/june/statement-us-trade-representative-ron-kirk-us-canada-06/17/2009Washington, D.C. - Ambassador Ron Kirk releases the following statement on the United States victory in the NAFTA arbitration case filed by a Canadian mining company, Glamis Gold Ltd. (now Goldcorp of Vancouver, British Columbia), challenging certain actions by the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the State of California relating to the Canadian investor's proposed mining operations.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/june/statement-us-trade-representative-ron-kirk-united-sta06/10/2009