EU tariffs threaten trade with US
28 August 2012
Relations between British purchasers and US steel suppliers are facing disruption after the European Union threatened to impose £200 million of retaliatory sanctions on American imports in a dispute over steel tariffs.
The EU plans to impose tariffs on products from states crucial to George Bush's re-election campaign in 2004, such as orange juice from Florida.
This follows a decision by the World Trade Organisation that the extra tariffs imposed by the US on steel imports in March 2002 infringe WTO rules.
According to one steel consultant, the EU's retaliation "will...