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US says WTO national security ruling ‘flawed’
    2019-04-29  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE United States said Friday a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on national security was “seriously flawed,” a warning not to use it as a precedent to judge U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported steel and cars.

The legal case in question was between Russia and Ukraine and did not directly involve the United States. But it was the first WTO ruling on “national security,” the basis for U.S. tariffs imposed last March on aluminum and steel imports and a planned U.S. tariff on imported cars.

The ruling earlier this month clarified the limits of “national security” as a defense for breaking WTO rules against unjustified tariff barriers to trade.

Any such claim should be “objectively” true, relating to weapons, war, fissionable nuclear materials or an “emergency in international relations,” according to the ruling.

Both Russia and Ukraine decided not to appeal, clearing the way for final adoption of the ruling at Friday’s meeting of the WTO’s dispute settlement body.

A U.S. diplomat told the meeting that the ruling was “unpersuasive” and “problematic for systemic reasons,” according to an official who attended the meeting.

The U.S. diplomat said the panel of three adjudicators had not sufficiently examined the argument that invocation of national security was “self-judging” — which would essentially shield the U.S. tariffs from any WTO challenge.

The U.S. diplomat also said the panel’s conclusions were premature and not up to the standards of international law, and that it should not have made the case for Russia by defining what constituted an “emergency” in international relations.

Diplomats from the European Union, Canada, China, Turkey, Australia and Mexico welcomed the ruling. (SD-Agencies)

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