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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9671

30 May 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
At WTO US and Japan denounce EU customs duties on hi-tech products

Brussels, 29/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 28 May, the US and Japan lodged a complaint at the WTO to protest against EU imposed import customs duties on certain hi-tech goods (EUROPE 9577). Washington and Tokyo are calling for WTO arbitration because the EU is imposing customs duties on goods that, under the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) of 1996, should be exempt from duty. Signatories of this agreement are committed to getting rid of customs duties on a whole range of...

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