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Belgium: EU slaps US with tit-for-tat tariffs after ‘illegal’ duty raise01:08
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Maros Sefcovic, the EU's Vice President and Energy Union Commissioner, announced that additional tariffs on a variety on US products will be imposed starting from July, during a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday.The move is in response to newly-enforced US tariffs on steel and aluminium products."The application of the rebalancing duties is fully in line with the WTO rules," Sefcovic said. "It's a measured and proportionate response to the unilateral and illegal decision taken by the United States to impose tariffs on the European steel and aluminium exports which we regret."

Belgium: EU slaps US with tit-for-tat tariffs after ‘illegal’ duty raise

Belgium, Brussels
June 6, 2018 at 11:50 GMT +00:00 · Published

Maros Sefcovic, the EU's Vice President and Energy Union Commissioner, announced that additional tariffs on a variety on US products will be imposed starting from July, during a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday.The move is in response to newly-enforced US tariffs on steel and aluminium products."The application of the rebalancing duties is fully in line with the WTO rules," Sefcovic said. "It's a measured and proportionate response to the unilateral and illegal decision taken by the United States to impose tariffs on the European steel and aluminium exports which we regret."

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Maros Sefcovic, the EU's Vice President and Energy Union Commissioner, announced that additional tariffs on a variety on US products will be imposed starting from July, during a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday.The move is in response to newly-enforced US tariffs on steel and aluminium products."The application of the rebalancing duties is fully in line with the WTO rules," Sefcovic said. "It's a measured and proportionate response to the unilateral and illegal decision taken by the United States to impose tariffs on the European steel and aluminium exports which we regret."

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