STEEL SAFEGUARD
August 1st, 2002
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKARETALIATORY duties hitting shoe and fashion accessory imports from the United States may be postponed or never imposed because of concessions made by the US regarding controversial steel safeguard duties that provoked the European Union into planning reprisals. The European Commission had asked EU ministers to approve 30 per cent duties on a range of shoes and accessories if or when, the EU wins a case at the World Trade Organisation against the US duties. But Brussels has now delayed the imposition of another set of 100 per cent ...
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