{"id":32885,"date":"2018-06-02T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=32885"},"modified":"2018-06-02T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T12:00:20","slug":"canada-files-wto-complaint-over-illegal-us-steel-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/canada-files-wto-complaint-over-illegal-us-steel-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada files WTO complaint over \u2018illegal\u2019 US steel tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa,<br \/>\nCanada filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization in response to \u201cillegal\u201d US tariffs on imports of Canadian steel and aluminum, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese unilateral tariffs, imposed under a false pretext of safeguarding US national security, are inconsistent with the United States\u2019 international trade obligations and WTO rules,\u201d Freeland said in a statement issued on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will coordinate its WTO case with the EU, which also filed a challenge. It also requested a review of the US measures under the North American Free Trade Agreement Chapter 20 trade dispute mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a key NORAD and NATO ally of the United States, and as the number-one customer of American steel, Canada views the US trade restrictions imposed on Canadian steel and aluminum as absolutely unacceptable,\u201d Freeland said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Washington announced tariffs of 25 per cent on Canadian steel imports and 10 per cent on aluminum.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa, Canada filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization in response to \u201cillegal\u201d US tariffs on imports of Canadian steel and aluminum, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said. \u201cThese unilateral tariffs, imposed under a false pretext of safeguarding US national security, are inconsistent with the United States\u2019 international trade obligations and WTO rules,\u201d Freeland said [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32887,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885\/revisions\/32887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}