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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7743

23 June 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 34 / 60
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/canada/wto
Asbestos case leads to first time that a WTO body backs barrier to trade with health protection - Confirmation expected next month

Brussels/Geneva, 22/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - A World Trade Organisation (WTO) arbitration panel should confirm, mid-July, the sound basis of the French embargo against asbestos, a measure that the European Union defended against Canada. Thus this panel will give its assent to the guideline from its interim report, in which it weighs that traditional arguments brandished by the world's second largest producer and exporter, giving the priority to protection of health over the general rules of...

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