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GENEVA (AP) - The U.S. and EU were again at loggerheads over trade issues Wednesday, with each claiming a World Trade Organization report had favored its position on Brussels' curbs on imports of genetically modified foods.
The 1,050-page preliminary ruling concluded that the EU had an effective ban on biotech foods between June 1999 and August 2003, when the panel was established, and had therefore acted inconsistently with its WTO obligations.
But the European Union countered that its current regulations on biotech products were vindicated by the report, saying that there was never a European moratorium on the imports of genetically altered crops from the United States or elsewhere.
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