DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
DS: United States — Additional Import Duties on Steel and Aluminium Articles from Canada
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Complaint by Canada
On 12 March 2025, Canada requested consultations with the United States with respect to measures imposing ad valorem rates of import duty on certain steel and aluminium articles. These rates of import duty were in addition to any other duties applicable to such articles.
Canada claimed that the challenged measures appear to be inconsistent with Articles II:1(a) and II:1(b) of the GATT 1994.
On 20 March 2025, the European Union requested to join the consultations.
On 21 March 2025, the United States requested the Chair of the DSB to circulate to Members a communication where it indicated that the United States accepted Canada's request to enter into consultations, without prejudice to the US view that the challenged tariffs were issues of national security not susceptible to review or capable of resolution by WTO dispute settlement, or whether each of the items in Canada's request for consultations constituted a “measure” within the meaning of Article 4 of the DSU.
On 1 May 2025, the United States requested the Chair of the DSB to circulate to Members a communication where it rejected the European Union's request to join the consultations.
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