U.S. rebuts EU’s charge that steel, aluminum tariffs constitute safeguards

The tariffs on steel and aluminum imposed by the Trump administration are not safeguard measures, the U.S. said at the World Trade Organization last week, rebuffing the European Union’s effort to conduct talks under the organization’s safeguards body. The EU last month requested consultations with the U.S. on the steel and aluminum tariffs, imposed under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, through the WTO Committee on Safeguards. In doing so, the bloc argued the duties “are in...