Canada initiates a WTO complaint on US steel, aluminum duties

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Canada has asked the WTO consultations for the introduction of imported duties on certain steel and aluminum products from Canada, according to the trading authority on Thursday.

The request was extended to members of the World Trade Organization on Thursday, according to the message.

Canada argues that measures that are released from Canada from additional duties on some steel and aluminum products and increase the responsibilities for aluminum articles that have come into force on Wednesday, do not meet the US obligations in accordance with the General Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

US President Donald Trump, talking to journalists in the oval office on Thursday, suggested that he was not going to change his mind at tariffs.

“We have broken for years and we are no longer going to break. I am not going to bend at all, aluminum, steel or car, ”he said.

This step adheres to Canada’s separate request on March 5 on consultations with the United States after new 25% of Trump tariffs for imports from Canada and Mexico, as well as new responsibilities for Chinese goods, have come into force.

Trump said the three best trading partners of the United States were unable to do enough to stop the flow of fentanyl and his predecessors of chemicals in the United States.

(Medlin Medlin Chamberrs, Olivia Le Poaidwin’s Additional Reporting, Thomas Seital Edit and Angus Maxwana)