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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8286

30 August 2002
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states/steel
Washington files complaint in Geneva regarding defensive mechanism deployed by Union against foreclosure of US steel market

Brussels, 29/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - The United States is calling on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to verify whether the safeguard mechanism set in place by the Union in March is legal, although the USA has itself taken safeguard measures with an almost total foreclosure effect on its steel market (see EUROPE of 28 March). In this new chapter in the conflict in which each party seems to alternately blow hot and cold, the panel's request, notified by Washington on 19 August this year,...

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