WTO to get environmental and moral trade test

The European Union is moving closer to a ban on importing seal products.

The ban isn’t so much environmental as moral, over concerns about Norway’s, and even more Canada’s, allowed methods of seal hunting. Canada has already said it will appeal a EU ban to the World Trade Organization; Norway has now said it will do the same.

Unless the EU can show environmental cause, I think it’s got little chance of winning this.