{"id":28,"date":"2003-07-12T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-12T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=28"},"modified":"2003-07-12T04:51:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-12T08:51:00","slug":"wto-rules-that-us-steel-duties-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"WTO rules that U.S. steel duties illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.customshelp.com\/news.php?articleId=95\">August 2002<\/a> Bush attempted to avert a global trade war over steel by exempting 178 products from the high tariffs he&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/general\/2002\/03\/05\/bush-steel.htm\">imposed in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The EU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/view.cfm?StoryID=20020823-092538-8845r\">welcomed the news<\/a> but added <i>&#8220;it would pursue legal action against the United States in the World Trade Organization.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That case has resulted in a decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/newsflash\/business\/index.ssf?\/base\/business-5\/1057978173149490.xml\">not favorable to the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Washington immediately said it would appeal, and would keep in place the tariffs that President Bush had justified as necessary to protect domestic steel producers against a flood of cheap imports during a restructuring period.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the European Union stepped up plans to impose $2.2 billion in retaliatory duties on U.S. imports, ranging from footwear to fruit and vegetables ? possibly pricing them out of the market.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2002 Bush attempted to avert a global trade war over steel by exempting 178 products from the high tariffs he&#8217;d imposed in March. The EU welcomed the news but added &#8220;it would pursue legal action against the United &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=28\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}