de aid for U.S. steel companies by giving them time to bounce back from their loses. The WTO was not a primary actor here, but it did play the essential role of mediator between the U.S. and EU. It is able to retain its objectivity because it is an international non-governmental organization, but in this case the delay worked in favor of the U.S. allowing over a year and a half of tariffs before declaring them illegal.
             On the surface, the Bush Administration's use of economic statecraft in
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