MANILA: The United States has filed a trade complaint against the Philippines over taxes it imposes on imported whiskey, gin and other spirits, joining the European Union in a similar case at the World Trade Organization.
Although the U.S. has raised the issue many times, the Philippines "continues to tax distilled spirits from the United States at much higher rates than distilled spirits in the Philippines," U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a statement Thursday.
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