Staff writer
The European Union will very likely ask the World Trade Organization next month to establish a neutral panel to settle a nagging trade dispute with Japan over leather products, informed sources said Wednesday.
The sources said that working-level officials of the European Commission, the executive arm of the 15-nation EU, have decided to make the request at a regular meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, scheduled for Jan. 25.
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