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Monitoring of steel imports in USA – Consistency under WTO laws -
United States maintains a licensing mechanism known as the Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) System, according to which any business importing steel mill products covered under the licensing program is required to procure a license. The system was introduced in 2003 at the persistence of the domestic steel industry in the United States and provides to the public, statistical data on steel imports entering the United States. However, is SIMA WTO compatible? According to one school of thought, an import-price monitoring system or import surveillance that affords protection will be considered inconsistent with the requirements of Article 11:1(b) of the Agreement on Safeguards. But, since all interested parties have equal access to the information, the monitoring mechanism cannot be considered as providing protection to any one particular party.
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