Japan may impose duties on U.S. steel and ball bearing
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Jul 29,2005
TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) - Japan is considering imposing retaliatory duties worth about $76 million on U.S. steel and other goods by September to counter subsidies paid by Washington to companies under an anti-dumping programme ruled illgal by the World Trade Organisation, Japanese media reported on Thursday.
It would be a first for Tokyo to impose retaliatory duties.
Tokyo is considering duties on U.S. steel and ball bearing products, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily reported.
Using a 15 percent levy as a starting point, varying rates will be applied to ball bearing and other product categories, it said.
Japanese government officials were not immediately available for comment on the report, which was also carried by public broadcaster NHK.
Tokyo plans to keep the levies in place until the so-called Byrd amendment is repealed.
The United States has paid out more than $1 billion to U.S. ball bearing, steel, seafood, pasta, candle and other companies under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 -- otherwise known as the Byrd amendment after one of its chief sponsors, Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat.
he programme distributes money raised by duties on imports the United States has determined are subsidised or unfairly priced to companies that sought the protection.
Previously, those funds went into the general U.S. treasury.
In June, Washington began steps to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in new subsidies under the amendment.
The WTO has declared the programme to be illegal in a challenge brought by the EU, Canada, Japan and other trading partners.
Brussels has imposed about $28 million in retaliatory duties on U.S. paper, clothing, fabrics, footwear and machinery, and Ottawa has imposed $14 million worth of similar duties on U.S. cigarettes, oysters and live swine.
In June, Tokyo called on Washington to repeal the Byrd amendment by the end of July.
The Bush administration has repeatedly proposed repealing the Byrd amendment, but it remains popular with many members of Congress despite the WTO ruling.
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