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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7842

16 November 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states
Friday, European Commission to lodge request for trade sanctions against American FSC before WTO, even if Congress has approved alternative scheme

Brussels / Washington, 15/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - "Whatever happens", on Friday the European Commission will lodge its request in Geneva aimed at authorising it, if need be, to impose unprecedented trade sanctions against the United States in the so-called "Foreign Sales Corporations" affair. "It is to preserve our rights of retaliation should the reform just adopted by Congress be declared incompatible with the rules of the World Trade Organisation by a later panel", said the spokesperson...

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