Parties Hit by Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Ask for WTO Panel; US Asks for Panel on Retaliatory Tariffs

The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body committee, which will meet Oct. 29, will consider multiple requests for panels on the legality of the U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, and on the legality of the safeguard tariffs that others imposed in reaction to the Section 232 action. The U.S. notified the WTO that its consultations with the European Union, Mexico, China and Canada on their safeguards were unsuccessful, and it asks for a panel in each of those matters. Canada, Mexico, Norway, Russia, the EU and China all asked for a panel on the metals tariffs.