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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11551
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade

Persistent gulf at Council over lesser duty rule

Brussels, 13/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - In light of the steel sector crisis, the Trade Ministers of the EU held a “constructive” discussion on the planned modernisation of the trade defence instruments, but will not revisit the controversial issue of the 'lesser duty rule', as a dozen or so members states are still against making any changes to this.

The ministers discussed the situation in the steel sector, “an urgent issue” following the Commission's recent strategy to rescue the...

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