“We will today send requests for a consultation panel at the WTO, and we have already started preparations for rebalancing measures with a deadline of June 20,” EC trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström said at a press conference on Friday June 1.
Malmström did not provide an immediate deadline for the conclusion of the EC’s import safeguard investigation, launched on March 26, instead reiterating the expected timeline of nine months.
The safeguard investigation covers 26 steel product types in an attempt...
