Brussels, 14/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - With preliminary procedures necessary before the formal opening of arbitration, consultations between the Union and the USA will begin on Tuesday 19 March in Geneva, in an effort to diffuse the steel conflict. A European Commission spokesman explained, "This is the first step in the procedural stage" to solve the differences, with which other steel supplying countries, heavily penalised by US safeguard measures, could be part. The consultation period...