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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8005

13 July 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states/wto
EU and 8 partners call on WTO to intervene against "Byrd Amendment" which reserves for American industry the product of trade defence measures

Brussels, 12/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - In association with eight third countries, the European Union is to ask the World Trade Organisation to set up a panel to check the legality of the American so-called "Byrd Amendment" provision, which provides for returning the product of anti-dumping and countervailing measures to companies that instigate such cases. Unprecedented to date, the joint action undertaken with Australia, Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Thailand - to which...

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