Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-13-Speech-3-184"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Transatlantic relations including steel import tariffs (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020313.7.3-184"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-13-Speech-3-1852
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Westendorp Y Cabeza2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2003-06-17)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2003-06-17)3 chair; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-23--2003-06-17)3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (1999-07-20--2003-06-17)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-23--2003-06-17)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2003-06-17)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, the transatlantic relationship is very important: it was a priority of the last Spanish Presidency and is again under the current one, and we must therefore do whatever we can to preserve it. What is happening is that, like any relationship, there are two sides to it, and we are now seeing that the Bush Administration is strongly tempted to act on its own; that is, to practise the Frank Sinatra doctrine: ‘I’ll do it my way’, both in politics – I only have two minutes and I cannot expand on this – and in trade. Trade never used to be an area that tested this relationship: we considered trade disputes to be an exception, while trade benefits were the rule. Now, however, they have gone too far, on both steel and another product that is less talked about: clementines. The cases are different: clementines affect just one country (the region, by the way, where Commissioner Solbes comes from) and steel affects us all. Both cases go against the WTO rules without any justification at all and, what is more, they imply self-punishment by the United States. We have to withstand both the indirect damage – I believe traffic diversion measures can be taken – and the direct damage. There are several possibilities: one is to take action within the WTO, but that will take time and, in the long run, we shall all be dead; there is also the possibility of of doing nothing, because the derived industries that import steel inputs will become less competitive and therefore we will be able to take over from them; but what I believe we must to is act immediately. The provisional measures that can be adopted are within easy reach, covered by the panel judgment on the Foreign Sales Task Corporation, and therefore we must act immediately."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"laissez-faire"1

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