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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8850

17 December 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 19 / 41
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states
EU confirms FSC sanctions will be waived on 1 January 2005 but does not rule out additional sanctions in 2006

Brussels, 16/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - A spokesperson for the Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson confirmed on Thursday that the EU still intended to waive, on 1 January 2005, trade sanctions that have been in place since March 2004 in the context of American Foreign Sales Corporations (FSC), declared illegal by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "This is not a new policy (…). Our goal is to lift the sanctions on January 1 in recognition of the fact that the United States has made a step...

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