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South Korea has hit back rapidly at US tariffs on washing machines and solar panels, filing challenges and demands for compensation at the World Trade Organization.
The WTO published the South Korean complaints yesterday, two days after US President Donald Trump signed the steep tariffs into law. He billed the move as a way to protect American jobs but the solar industry said it would lead to thousands of layoffs and raise consumer prices.
The 30 percent tariff on solar panels was among the first unilateral trade restrictions imposed by the Trump administration as part of a broader protectionist agenda aimed at helping US manufacturers, but which has alarmed Asian trading partners that produce lower cost goods.
South Korea challenged the US tariffs under the WTO’s Safeguard Agreement, leaving open the possibility of a full trade dispute later.
The agreement gives the US 30 days to settle the matter, after which South Korea has a 60-day window to impose trade sanctions David Mayo Jersey , if the US measures break WTO rules. It was not clear if the United States could challenge that assumption.
Seoul is already seeking WTO trade sanctions to retaliate for Washington’s failure to comply with an earlier WTO ruling.
On Wednesday US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross brushed off the threat of South Korea going to the WTO.
“The fact that they may get a favorable decision (at the WTO) doesn’ mean that it’s a correct decision,” he said. “But in any event there’s been no decision yet so it’s a little bit too early to assume that the safeguards will be knocked out.”
No country has ever negotiated a settlement under the WTO safeguard rules, and it was not clear if they could provide a quicker result than a full dispute, which could take three years or more, giving US manufacturers a long period of protection from competition by their South Korean rivals.
Under WTO rules, a country can impose safeguards — temporary emergency tariffs — to shield its domestic industry from an sudden Greg Van Roten Jersey , unforeseen and damaging surge in imports.
Ricardo Melndez-Ortiz, head of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, said the solar tariffs would fail to boost US solar manufacturing and would destroy US jobs while impeding the fight against climate change.
“These tariffs are insufficient to really generate enough stimulus to create the manufacturing capacity that they are trying to stimulate,” he said.
“It’s just going to slow down the production of sustainable energy and solar in the US, in a big way.”
(Agencies)
A ticket booth for sightseeing boats is partly submerged by the River Seine after days of almost non-stop rain caused flooding in the country, in Paris Devin Funchess Jersey , France January 27, 2018.
The swollen Seine inched even higher on Sunday, keeping Paris on alert, though forecasters said the flooding should peak overnight, leaving a lengthy mop-up job.
The river had risen another 9 centimetres (3.5 inches) in 24 hours by Sunday morning, more than four metres above its normal level Shaq Thompson Jersey , causing headaches for commuters as well as people living near its overflowing banks.
Tourists suffered too with the capital's famous Bateaux Mouches rivercraft out of service, and only emergency services authorised to navigate the waterway.
The Vigicrues flooding watchdog expects the river to peak at between 5.85 and 5.95 metres (19.3 feet) overnight, not quite reaching the 2016 high of 6.1 metres, when priceless artworks had to be evacuated from the Louvre.
But the world's most visited museum was still on alert Sunday, along with the Musee d'Orsay and Orangerie galleries, with the lower level of the Louvre's Islamic arts wing closed to visitors at least until Monday.
A statue of an Algerian French army soldier from the Crimean War named Zouave that has guarded the river at the Pont d'Alma bridge in central Paris since 1910 was drenched up to the thighs in the muddy waters of the Seine.
"Fluctuat nec mergitur (tossed but not sunk) but it's cooold James Bradberry Jersey ," the Zouave tweeted from an account set up in its name by an anonymous admirer, using the Latin motto of the City of Paris.
Police again warned flooding aficionados against bathing or canoeing in the river, saying it was "forbidden and extremely dangerous".
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More favourable weather is expected for the week ahead, and Vigicrues has lowered its warning level from orange to yellow in several areas upstream of the capital.
But even once the water levels start to recede, forecasters and officials say it will be a slow process, since much of the ground in northern France is already waterlogged.
"If we're talking about things getting completely back to normal Taylor Moton Jersey , that's going to take weeks," said Jerome Goellner, regional head of environmental services.
Around 1,500 people have been evacuated from their homes in the greater Paris region, according to police, while a similar number of homes are without electricity.
Some basements in Paris began to suffer leaks on Friday Christian McCaffrey Jersey , and a health centre in the city's northwestern suburbs, where 86 patients were receiving care, was evacuated because of flooding.
- Neighbourhoods under water -
The December-January period is now the third wettest on record since data collection began in 1900, according to France's meteorological service.
A main commuter line, the RER C, has halted service at Paris stops indefinitely Ian Thomas Blue Jersey , and some expressways that run alongside the Seine have been closed.
However, fears of flooding like that of 1910, which saw the Seine rise to 8.62 metres, shutting down much of Paris's basic infrastructure, appeared unfounded.
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