The European Union and Japan plan to raise tariffs on American imports after the United States missed a World Trade Organization deadline to repeal a law handing domestic companies millions of dollars in customs duties, according to officials.
Japan and the European Union will notify the trade organization on Monday of their intention to increase duties on unspecified products, according to an official at the Japanese Ministry of Trade, Economy and Industry, and Arancha González, the European Commission's spokeswoman for trade in Brussels.
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"The purpose," González said, "is to reserve our right to retaliate and protect the interests of our companies suffering from the unfair practices of the U.S. administration. The most important thing right now is that the U.S. puts an end to the practice and stops distributing the proceeds of antidumping cases to its producers."
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