Brussels, 02/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - As announced in Europe on 31 August (p.8), the European Union has been authorised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to impose unprecedented sanctions on US trade if the United States refuses to scrap its tax subsidy scheme for companies' exports (a scheme known as FSC), exempting extra-territorial income (ETI). The lever the WTO is holding out to encourage the US to respect international trade rules is of the scale of more than $4.043 billion, but a...