Hogan Lovells Publications | Export Controls Alert | 12 July 2017

U.S. exports of whiskey, juice, and dairy products to Europe targeted for retaliation against President Trump’s plans to limit steel imports to the U.S.

U.S. trading partners have begun to signal their plans to consider retaliatory measures in response to President Trump’s Section 232 Investigations on steel imports. In particular, European Union (EU) officials recently announced that they have begun assembling a list of US goods, including whiskey, orange juice, and dairy products, to target for retaliation given President Trump’s plans to limit steel imports. Since the U.S. exports very little steel to Europe, the EU instead plans to focus on targeting products that are “politically sensitive.”

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