Brussels / Geneva, 24/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has begun talks with Argentina, Chile and Korea to try to agree to a "reasonable deadline" enabling them to dismantle the trade restrictions the Union had, successfully, denounced before the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The representatives of these three countries in Geneva last week promised the Dispute Settlements Body to carry out the recommendations of panels of experts that had condemned, respectively: a) Argentinean safeguard measures on the import of shoes; b) Chilean taxes on foreign alcoholic beverages; c) Korean import safeguard measures on dairy products (see EUROPE of 19 January). "We are trying to agree, in all three cases, to mutually acceptable implementing deadlines. If we don't succeed, the arbitration body will determine what is an acceptable period", said the Commission spokesperson.