Dairy group representatives have written to the U.S. Senate urging members to resolve the trade dispute over country of origin labeling. Earlier this year the WTO found the U.S. COOL law trade distorting. Canada and Mexico have threatened retaliation and are awaiting an arbitration panel’s decision on the amount of damages to access tariffs. Chris Galen with the National Milk Producer Federation says while dairy products aren’t effected by the COOL dispute, trade is.

Galen says the dairy groups just want the Senate to take action. However, they don’t specifically support either the voluntary COOL program or repealing mandatory labeling.

He says it’s been a tough financial year for dairy producers and any type of retaliation would only harm the industry more.

Also signing on to the letter are the U.S. Dairy Export Council and the International Dairy Foods Association.