NAFTA STEEL CASE

BY KEITH NUTHALLA NORTH American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) appeals panel has confirmed that the United States sunset review of countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian corrosion resistant steel exports wrongly concluded that this protection should be re-imposed.The new panel rejected arguments brought by the US International Trade Commission that aimed to shore up its already dismissed claims that the Canadian industry had excess capacity that it could use in the future to hit "already weakened" American competitors.The appeals panel notably rejected a ...


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