BYRD AMENDMENT – CANADA
April 1st, 2005
KEITH NUTHALLTHE CANADIAN government is to impose 15% additional duties on American oyster imports, because of Washington's failure to follow a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that it should scrap its Byrd Amendment law on protective tariffs. This grants US companies additional compensation for successfully pushing their federal government into erecting anti-dumping or countervailing duties on imports deemed subsidised or cut-priced. Ottawa says its retaliatory duty will come in force from May 1, the same timetable as the European Union (EU), which is ...
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