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WTO Decision Striking Down U. S. Steel Safeguard Measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004 

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References

1 For background, see Murphy, Sean D., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 96 AJIL 977 (2002).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 See Panel Report, United States—Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products, WT/DS248/R (July 11, 2003).

3 See Agreement on Safeguards, Apr. 15, 1994, Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, Annex 1 A, in World Trade Organization, the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: The Legal Texts 315 (1999)Google Scholar [hereinafter The Legal Texts].

4 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Apr. 15, 1994, Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, Annex 1A, in The Legal Texts, supra note 3, at 21.

5 See Appellate Body Report, United States—Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products, WT/DS248/AB/R (Nov. 10, 2003).

6 See European Commission Press Release IP/03/1518 (Nov. 10, 2003) (Joint press statement by the EC, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland), at <http://www.europa.eu.int/news/index_en.htm>; Becker, Elizabeth, U.S. Tariffs Are Illegal, World Trade Organization Says, N.Y. Times, Nov. 11, 2003, at Al.Google Scholar

7 Proclamation No. 7741, 68 Fed. Reg. 68, 483 (Dec. 4, 2003).

8 Statement on Signing the Proclamation to Provide for the Termination of Action Taken with Regard to Imports of Certain Steel Products, 39 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1749, 1750 (Dec. 4, 2003)Google Scholar. The president’s advisers reportedly concluded that the safeguard measure was costing more jobs in the steel-consuming industry than it was saving in the steel-production industry. See Weisman, Jonathan, Bush Rescinds Tariffs on Steel, Wash. Post, Dec. 5, 2003, at A1.Google Scholar