RUSSIA BECOMES TO AT THE END OF MARCH WITH THE STEEL TRADE WITH EU
FINAL DETERMINING








MOSCOW, 11 March.  (RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent).
Russia will finally commit itself to at the end of March with the
steel trade with the EU.  This avowed Maxim Medwedkow, deputy Minister
of Trade and economic development of Russia.

The consultation between Russia and the EU over the steel trade are
constantly led according to it.  On 30 March this question on the
negotiations in Moscow will be discussed with the European Union
commissioner Pascal Lamy.

The differences between Russia and EU are connected with the fact that
the euro commission decided in this January to extend the
12-Prozent-Quote for the Russian steel on the European market for one
year.  EU regards this as counter measure opposite Russia, which
introduced in the spring 1999 export fee for metal scrap at a value of
15 per cent of the value for customs purposes.  In consideration of
the limitations Russia can supply 2001 to the EU about 820,000 tons of
metal products.