EFTA V EU
June 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area has told the European Union that it is "deeply disturbed" by not being "exempted from the European Commission's measures to restrict steel imports." The Chairman of EFTA's Standing Committee, Ambassador Gunnar Snorri Gunnarsson (CORRECT NAME) claimed at an EU-EFTA meeting that the EU had erred by failing to exempt EFTA states, (Iceland, Switzerland, Norway and Liechtenstein), from its safeguard regime, designed to stop EU markets from being flooded with steel normally sold in the US. Indeed, Mr Gunnarsson claimed that ...
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