“I’m afraid that, nowadays, trade cases have nothing to do with actual facts. It’s more like they’ll throw [an allegation] against the wall [and] whatever will stick, sticks,” Baysal said at the Steel Orbis 2017 Conference and 76th Irepas (International Rebar Exporters & Producers Assn) meeting in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday March 27.
“It is not about trading any more, it is about what is going to benefit the US economy. [The] USA comes first and they are going to project power in that fashion on a trade basis,” Matthew Nolan, a partner at US law firm Arent Fox, said.
The new US administration under President Donald Trump...