欧盟对美国制造的牛仔裤降低报复性关税

 

EU reduces retaliatory duties on US-made jeans

The European Union (EU) has reduced retaliatory duties on some US-made jeans, but will still impose a rate on top of regular duties as part of an ongoing and long-running trade dispute between Washington and Brussels. 
From 1 May the EU retaliatory tariffs on a number of US-made products including women's and girls' jeans (HTS 6204.62.31) will fall from 1.5% to 0.45%. 
This rate is levied on top of regular duties and comes in response to payments the US makes to domestic industries to distribute antidumping duties collected on foreign-made goods. 
The tariff hike was authorized against the US by the World Trade Organization (WTO) for being in violation of its international trade obligations for failing to fully comply with a ruling against the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000. 
Also known as the Byrd Amendment, this law allowed American companies who complained about unfairly traded goods to receive payment from the additional duties collected by the US. 
The law was found to be a violation of WTO rules and, despite a repeal in 2005, its distributions were allowed to continue for entries of goods made before 1 October 2007.　As a result, the WTO allows other countries to raise tariffs on goods imported from the US up to a certain amount, which varies each year. 

译文如下：

欧盟对美国制造的牛仔裤降低报复性关税

欧盟(EU)减少了对一些美国牛仔裤的报复性关税,但仍将征收一些常规关税，作为华盛顿和布鲁塞尔之间长期的贸易争端的一部分。

从5月1日起，欧盟对美国产品，包括女士和女孩的牛仔裤(HTS 6204.62.31)征收的报复性关税将从1.5%降至0.45%。

这个税率是普通关税的征收,以应对支付美国制造者对国内产业分布的国外产品征收反倾销税。

关税上调是世界贸易组织(WTO)授权反对美国，因其违反国际贸易义务未能完全遵守否决继续实行2000年倾销和补贴抵消法案。

也被称为伯德修正案,该法案允许投诉不公平参与贸易商品的美国公司可以收到从美国收集的额外关税。

该法律被发现违反世贸组织规则,尽管在2005年废除,但其分布被允许在2007年10月1日之前继续。因此,WTO允许其他国家提高从美国进口商品的关税到一定数量,每年不同。