11.   Yet the dispute over steel tariffs has turned these old friends into public adversaries in advance of their meetings this week in Washington.

12.   Poland has refused to lower steel import tariffs to protect its industry.

13.   Although the steel tariffs have angered Tokyo, Evans said that overall trade between the two countries was going smoothly.

14.   But they generally oppose his policies on steel tariffs and think the United States has not done enough to push for peace in the Middle East.

15.   Buzek acknowledged efforts were needed to restructure the steel industry and to lower steel tariffs but stressed that these were problems the present government inherited from its predecessor.

16.   China has asked for talks with the European Union over its decision to permit new steel tariffs, saying they could hurt Chinese exports.

17.   China joins dispute against U.S. steel tariffs ARABS-SUMMIT.

18.   Crisis-hit Turkey, a close U.S. ally, is exempt from steel tariffs along with Argentina and Thailand.

19.   Despite a second summit since Miami, concrete progress on a free trade area has been slow as delegates haggle over everything form agricultural subsidies to steel tariffs.

20.   Even as trans-Atlantic trade relations sour over steel tariffs, the European Union is moving to end another dispute with the United States over aircraft noise.