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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9127

9 February 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states/trade
Washington calls for immediate end to European sanctions on Byrd Amendment - In wake of WTO report, "EU must change its practices in sales of GMO"

Brussels, 08/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - Washington has called for the EU to remove, with immediate effect, commercial sanctions it brought in against the United States in May 2005, as part of the dispute over the "Byrd Amendment". This American anti-dumping legislation, which the WTO declared illegal in 2003, was abolished last week by a very narrow vote in the American Congress, but the EU has countered that it intends to keep the sanctions in place for as long as American businesses are...

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