Brussels, 05/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Union has gained approval from the World Trade Organisation in its dispute with the USA on compensatory duties to German steel producers for subsidies they received before they were privatised. Similar to the British Steel affair, where the so-called "gamma" approach of Washington was condemned by the WTO in 1993, the complaint lodged last August claimed that compensation was not justified because these companies that came out of this...