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Global Trade Alert

United States of America: Defeated effort to relax the flag-preference laws for government-financed cargoes

Announcement

01 Mar 2011

In March 2011, the government of the United States of America announced a change in the required local inputs to serve domestic customers.

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Number of interventions

1

0 certainly harmful

1 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

01 Mar 2011

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Updated: 01 Mar 2011
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Two departments in the U.S. government had engaged in a dispute over the use of U.S.-flag vessels to transport goods purchased with loan guarantees from the Department of Energy (DOE). DOE had argued ...
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