Brussels, 13/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Union has referred a dispute with the United States to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) concerning the retention of countervailing duties against European steel producers despite the condemnation of the same measures in the framework of the arbitration on the case of "British Steel" (see EUROPE of 17 and 13 May). A request for bilateral consultations, the first stage of the arbitration procedure, was submitted in Geneva on Monday, given...