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EU steel safeguard extended by three years with majority vote by bloc's governments

By Joanna Sopinska
  • 18 Jun 2021 09:56
  • 18 Jun 2021 09:56
EU-bound steel goods will continue to face “safeguard” restrictions for another three years after a majority of EU governments gave their go-ahead to the proposed extension today, MLex has learned.  
It is understood that the renewed measure, to apply from July 1, was approved with 17 votes in favor, eight

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Joanna Sopinska

Senior Correspondent


Joanna covers trade in Brussels. Formerly trade editor of EU Trade Insights, she has many years' experience reporting on trade, investment policy and foreign affairs. Before that, she spent nine years at Europolitics news agency writing on trade, agriculture policy and foreign affairs. Before moving to Brussels in 2006, Joanna worked as an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Relations (PISM) in Warsaw.

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