Press Release: EU ready to take all necessary steps to keep foreign markets open to European steel and to prevent flood of imports into EU if US goes down blatantly protectionist road

In a speech before the UK Steel Association in London on 14 December 2001, EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy issued a clear warning that the EU has no intention of standing idly by if the US chooses the route of blatant protectionism of its ailing steel industry.

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http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/issues/sectoral/industry/steel/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/issues/sectoral/industry/steel/index_en.htm

http://www.uksteel.org.uk/ http://www.uksteel.org.uk/

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