The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has put forward two other alternative recommendations before the US president George Bush, apart from the bound rate of 40 per cent duty on 29 foreign-made (including Indian) steel products, under safeguard measures or Section 201 of the US Trade Law.
Robert Rogowsky, director of operations of US ITC who is in the country visiting the affected steel companies, following an appeal made by them, said,
