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Industry executive: EU steel deal not a ‘template’ for UK, Japan talks

January 28, 2022 at 4:29 PM
A deal struck last year by the U.S. and the European Union to resolve a three-year dispute over steel and aluminum should not serve as a model for separate negotiations with Japan and the United Kingdom, a steel company executive said on Thursday. Using Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the Trump administration in 2018 imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from a host of countries, including the EU, which then included the UK. The U.S...

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