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Steel Companies Back Early End of Tariffs
WSJ.com ^ | 11/18/03 | Neil King, Carlos Tejada

Posted on 11/18/2003 4:08:37 AM PST by Texas_Dawg

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

U.S. steelmakers reluctantly agreed to end tariffs on steel imports earlier than scheduled, after the White House urged the companies to seek middle ground and help it avert a threatened trade war.

But the offer likely will face a tough audience in the European Union. European trade officials have shown little interest in compromising on the levies, which the World Trade Organization last week ruled were illegal. U.S. steel consumers, including automotive-parts makers, also aren't likely to be impressed by the compromise proposal.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: freedom; freetrade; nationalsocialism; steeltariffs; wto
Victory for freedom.
1 posted on 11/18/2003 4:08:42 AM PST by Texas_Dawg
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To: austinTparty; Dane; Coop; ArneFufkin; Catspaw; Poohbah; expat_panama; Chancellor Palpatine; ...
Economic freedom ping.
2 posted on 11/18/2003 4:10:21 AM PST by Texas_Dawg (7.2% Doom.)
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To: Texas_Dawg
We need to get the hell out of the WTO, along with the UN.
3 posted on 11/18/2003 4:31:35 AM PST by 11B3 ("Free" Trade? No. Equal Trade Or Nothing. No Dumping Allowed.)
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To: 11B3
We need to get the hell out of the WTO, along with the UN.

The UN is bad. The WTO is good.

4 posted on 11/18/2003 4:32:25 AM PST by Texas_Dawg (7.2% Doom.)
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To: Texas_Dawg
I just wish that the people who like import taxes so much would just like them for themselves and not make me pay them too.

Unfortunately, the tax and spenders who like Gephardt and Buchanan never want to tax themselves, they just want to redistribute my wealth.

5 posted on 11/18/2003 5:09:06 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama
Unfortunately, the tax and spenders who like Gephardt and Buchanan never want to tax themselves, they just want to redistribute my wealth.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind redistributing your wealth. FReepmail me your account info! :-p

6 posted on 11/18/2003 5:13:48 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Coop
YIKES!
7 posted on 11/18/2003 5:59:21 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: Texas_Dawg
Please put me on your ping list, thank you.
8 posted on 11/18/2003 6:01:40 AM PST by RiflemanSharpe (An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
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To: 11B3
I like your tag line. And you are right.
9 posted on 11/18/2003 6:02:37 AM PST by RiflemanSharpe (An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
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To: expat_panama
Agreed.
10 posted on 11/18/2003 6:03:59 AM PST by hchutch ("I don't see what the big deal is, I really don't." - Major Vic Deakins, USAF (ret.))
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To: RiflemanSharpe
Please put me on your ping list, thank you.

OK. How do I create one of those though? Right now I just type names from memory.

11 posted on 11/18/2003 6:25:18 AM PST by Texas_Dawg (7.2% Doom.)
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To: Texas_Dawg
I know only of how I do it, but I keep a notepad file on my desktop that lists the names of those I want to ping to particular topics. I just past their names, separated by commas, into the address box when making a reply I want to ping. And, of course, the notepad file can be added to or deleted from at will.
12 posted on 11/18/2003 12:32:31 PM PST by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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To: gcruse
Cool. Thanks. I didn't know if there was a place we could keep a list at FR.
13 posted on 11/19/2003 3:41:37 AM PST by Texas_Dawg (7.2% Doom.)
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