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In a 170-page report, a three- member WTO panel rejected the bulk of the U.S. appeal of an earlier ruling that said duties of up to 30 percent introduced in March 2002 by the Bush admin istration breached trade rules. The appeals body is WTO’s highest tribunal, and the deci sion is final. In a joint statement, the countries that brought the case said the United States had “no other choice” but to remove the import duties without delay. The EU said it will impose retaliato ry sanctions of up to $2.2 billion by introducing 100 percent duties on some U.S. imports, effectively pricing those goods out of the EU market. The United States insisted it was right to impose the tariffs for three years. “We disagree with the over all WTO report and we are going to study it and look at its implications and go from there,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan, aboard Air Force One with President Bush. McClellan would not offer a timetable for a White House decision on whether to rescind the tariffs or accept the sanctions. For several weeks. Bush has been studying a separate report from his international trade commission on the subject. “The steel safeguards the president imposed were to pro vide our domestic steel industry an opportunity to adjust to import competition ... to give our domestic industry an opportunity to restructure and consolidate and become stronger and more competi tive,” McClellan said. “We believe (the safeguards) are fully consistent with WTO rules and we will carefully review those decisions.” U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, a Republican from the steel state of Ohio, said it was “absolutely unconscionable for the WTO to target needed American tariffs on foreign steel while nations such as China are manipulating its currency, paying its workers pennies per hour and Hooding the marketplace with their cheap goods.” When his administration introduced the duties. Bush claimed they were justified to protect domestic steel producers during a period of restructuring. But the complainants said Washington failed to prove that its industry was harmed by a sudden flood of cheap imports —r a condition for imposing such duties under WTO rules — and that it unfairly excluded imports from countries the United States had free trade agreements with at the time — Canada. Mexico, Israel and Jordan. The issue is a political foot ball in the United States, where the Bush administration is fac ing heavy pressure from steel- producing states to keep the tar iffs in place. The administration has been reviewing whether to maintain the duties for the full three-year coverage period, which would run past next year’s presidential elections. But there also is domestic pressure to remove the tariffs from steel users such as automakers. They claim the move has increased the price of their materials, causing job losses in the industry and mak ing vehicles more expensive for consumers. The EU plans to target its tariffs at goods produced in important swing states in the 2004 presidential election. It says it will start retaliating if the U.S. steel duties are still in place five days after the report lias been formally adopted by the WTO, which must happen within 30 days. EU trade commissioner Pascal Lamy told Dow Jones Newswires he believed remov ing the duties would be much more effective at pushing the U.S. steel industry to restruc ture, while leaving them in place U.S. tariffs illegal Tariffs which have caused US steel consumers to useless foreign steel this year while depositing $650 million into the Federal Treasury were deeme: illegal by the World Trade Organization Monday. Value of U.S. Steel imports ht 03 '02 03 03 Impact of the tariffs since imposed in march 2002 $700 million 600 500 400 300 200 100 ■ $650 n " ll,0li - Cost to steel consumers Tanff revenue collects:! SOURCES: U.S Commerce Department International Trade Commission artificially protects the indusr “The rationale for these sie guards — if there ever was a® — has disappeared,’'he said. Complaints also were filet by Japan, Soutli Korea, Nora; Switzerland, China. Net Zealand and Brazil. All of te countries could now seek impose sanctions on l)A imports if the dulies are» removed, and Tokyo already fas warned it may retaliate “Should the U.S, improvement, we will sinpl) take the necessary steps,” sail Japan's vice minister of ecoi- my, trade and industry. Seiji Murata, according to Kyod news agency. WTO director-genes Supachai Panitchpakdisaid®' lier Monday he hopes the c» tries will he able lo solve it problem without resorting to| sanctions. “I’m sure there will be some way out,” Supachai said, speak ing in Beijing. “I expect die conciliatory approach that w have seen in the past, and leer tainly recommend it approach.” ' in tri; wa GALA ments, t around t Durst mi trie milli erly neig On Ti rendered deliberat killing hi posing o When vote was voted no undecide “Wht afternoo: because De said NEWS IN BRIEF Government civil fraud recoveries reach $2.1 billion WASHINGTON — The gov ernment recovered a record $2.1 billion in fiscal 2003 from lawsuits and investigations involving allegations of fraud in programs ranging from Medicare to offshore gas leases, the Justice Department announced Monday. The total for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 brings to $12 billion the amount recov ered since 1986, when Congress toughened the civil False Claims Act by increasing incentives for people who sus pect wrongdoing to file whistle blower lawsuits. Whistle-blowers were paid some $319 million in 2003 for disclosing the fraud by filing a lawsuit against the company. The taw allows whistle-blowers to receive up to 25 percent of any judgment should the gov ernment intervene and up to 30 percent should they pursue their cases alone. Health care fraud accounteil for most of the money reco ! . ered in 2003, mainly fromtl;| Medicare and Medicaid pftj grams. One big case inv $641 million from the HCAInc| health care- chain for the | ment of kickbacks to pi dans and overbilling Medic HCA has paid the gov ment $1.7 billion in connectirj with fraud settlements t criminal guilty plea c from 2000. evid to reasc was c 0 PRESENTS w E D WHAT WAS I THINK! N? 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