Rolls of galvanized steel sheet. Stock image.
Canada has requested WTO dispute consultations with the U.S. over its imposition of import duties on certain steel and aluminum products from Canada, the trade body said on Thursday.
The request was circulated to World Trade Organization members on Thursday, it said.
Canada says the measures, which end Canada’s exemption from additional duties on some steel and aluminum products and increase duties on aluminum articles and which took effect on Wednesday, are inconsistent with U.S. obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994, the WTO said in a statement.
U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, suggested he was not going to change his mind on tariffs.
“We’ve been ripped off for years and we’re not going to be ripped off anymore. I’m not going to bend at all, aluminum or…
