EU stance on Trump's tariffs 'risks breaching' WTO rules
Simon Lester, an expert on WTO law at the libertarian Cato Institute, said there was also a risk that the European Union could set a precedent akin to the one it was accusing the United States of making by using a rarely used national security loophole in global trade rules.
It could be markets are hoping that Trump's other threat of more tariffs to come - i.e. "I do think the possibility of NAFTA partners walking away from the table mattered quite a bit", the lobbyist said.
"We are extremely anxious about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the White House to not advance with this plan", Ryan spokesperson AshLee Strong said.
"The president has made a number of campaign promises which he is determined to deliver on", U.S. Sen.
"The American aluminum and steel industry has been ravaged by aggressive foreign trade practices", Trump declared at a White House ceremony, surrounded by steel and aluminum workers holding white hard hats.
"If he doesn't see that there's room to maneuver, he'll create some", said Bozell, president of For America, a conservative grassroots political group. A formal announcement on how the tariffs will be rolled out is expected Thursday afternoon.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be visiting Hamilton March 13, as part of a tour of areas that have steel or aluminum industries that could be hit by possible tariffs by the United States. "We have the ability to respond", he told Mexican broadcaster Televisa. "We kept making the case that Canada wasn't the enemy".
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Under World Trade Organization rules, such counter-measures have to be in place within 90 days of the USA tariffs entering force. She said she got "no immediate clarity on the exact US procedure for exemption" and that new talks are planned for next week.
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Canadian cabinet members also kept phone lines "humming" with their USA counterparts in an all-out push that recalled a lobbying effort in April 2017 to persuade Trump not to withdraw from NAFTA but to pursue re-negotiations instead.
The lobbying found a mostly receptive audience: the US military strongly resisted tariffs against allies and 107 congressional Republicans released a letter this week to express alarm over the move.
The move, which garnered a lot of criticism from China and Europe, has not gone down well with Trump's party members as over 100 Republican House members signed a letter expressing concerns about the damage the tariffs may do to trade and the companies that use cheap steel and aluminum imports in the US.
Trudeau, who spoke privately with Trump about the proposed tariffs earlier this week, is taking his pitch public next week.
The actual formal documents specifically state that Canada and Mexico are a special case, given the continent's shared commitment to mutual security, an integrated defence industry and the shared fight against dumped steel and that the best way to address US concerns - "at least at this time" - is by continuing discussions. Still, many European officials argue the American national security case is so flimsy - just 3 percent of USA aluminum and steel production goes to military purposes- that it still violates WTO rules.
But an administration official insisted on Wednesday that Trump's final tariff proclamations had not been softened, saying the "flexible but firm" approach allows exemptions for allies, but must be offset by higher tariffs on remaining countries. That has helped to revive the fortunes of the USA industry.
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