Argentina claims U.S. countervailing duties on biodiesel breach WTO rules

Argentina’s foreign ministry is charging that countervailing duties the United States recently slapped on biodiesel imports from Argentina are unjustified and do not comport with World Trade Organization rules. The foreign ministry, in an Aug. 24 statement , said it “it rejects the size of the preliminary taxes, over 50 percent, that at the current time don't correspond with any kind of objective investigation nor acceptable methodology from the point of view of the norms of the WTO,” according to...