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• Steel industry tells DOD that health of U.S. Mfg. sector is essential for national security

  - 2007-01-23

  The U.S. Department of Defense is dependent on a healthy commercial steel industry for the production of its many weapon systems, according to the major U.S. steel trade associations and the United Steelworkers Union. "If we continue to lose our manufacturing base due to market-distorting foreign competition or U.S. economic...

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• Britain, US pledge to reduce transatlantic trade barriers

  - 2003-11-18

  BIRMINGHAM, England AFP ? Britain and the United States have agreed to launch a review of how to boost transatlantic trade by tearing down barriers, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced. Accompanied by US Treasury Secretary John Snow at a meeting of business leaders in Birmingham, central...

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• WTO appeals panel confirms U.S. steel duties are illegal

  - 2003-11-10

  GENEVA -- An appeals panel ruled Monday that U.S. duties on imported steel introduced last year are illegal, and the European Union is threatening to retaliate with $2.2 billion in sanctions unless Washington lifts the tariffs swiftly. The White House quickly disputed the decision by the World Trade...

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• United States Seeks Elimination of International Steel Subsidies.

  - 2002-09-11

  By Doug Palmer, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 11--The United States will propose to eliminate international steel subsidies and trade barriers during talks this week in Paris, a US Commerce Department official said on Monday. The...

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• Japan frets about new U.S. steel charge.

  - 2002-07-15

  TOKYO, July 12 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING INDUSTRY REACTION AT 6TH-9TH PARAS) Japanese trade minister Takeo Hiranuma expressed concerns Friday about rising protectionism in the United States following Thursday's ruling by the U.S. Commerce Department that cold-rolled steel products from Japan and four other...

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• U.S. says Japan firms dumping cold-rolled steel products

  - 2002-07-15

  WASHINGTON, July 11 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING INFO) The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday issued a final ruling saying cold-rolled steel products from five countries, including Japan, are being dumped on the U.S. market. If the U.S. International Trade Commission ITC concludes in August that...

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• Japan, EU to keep close contact on steel row with U.S.

  - 2002-05-20

  PARIS, May 16 Kyodo Japanese trade minister Takeo Hiranuma and European Union EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy agreed Thursday to keep close contact with each other on whether to take retaliatory action June 18 against new U.S. steel duties, a Japanese official said. ...

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• Kawaguchi, Powell express regrets over U.S. steel tariffs

  - 2002-03-18

  TOKYO, March 13 Kyodo Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday shared their ''regrets'' over the U.S. decision last week to curb steel imports, Japanese ministry officials said. In a brief telephone conversation, Kawaguchi expressed disappointment that U.S....

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• Steel Trap: How Subsidies and Protectionism Weaken the U.S. Steel Industry

  BNET - 2002-03-01

  On March 6, President Bush is expected to announce specific Section 201 measures to further protect the domestic steel industry from import competition. By any relevant economic measure, the costs of protection will far exceed the benefits, and any benefits accruing to steel firms from that protection will be fleeting....

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• US car makers lead poor economic news.

  - 2001-10-16

  Oct 17, 2001 The Age ABIX via COMTEX -- The US September quarterly reporting season opened on 16 October 2001 with further bad news. Ratings agency, Standard and Poor's, lowered its credit rating for US-based automobile giants, General Motors and Ford. While the re-rating...

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