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U.S. blocks EU request for second compliance panel in Airbus subsidies case

August 15, 2018 at 4:25 PM
The United States blocked the European Union’s request for a second compliance panel at a special Dispute Settlement Body meeting Wednesday -- a move the EU claimed went against a commitment the U.S. made in a 2012 sequencing agreement -- as the two sides remain embroiled in a 14-year battle at the World Trade Organization over subsidies four EU member states have provided to Airbus. The U.S. called the EU’s request “a disservice to the WTO and its dispute settlement...

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