when bush did what he did in 2002, that process played out over about two yearsrs at the end of the eeriod, the wto said, you can't t do that, t which point than the other countries are allowed to put up sanctions. but this is not a, boom, right a way. we're processing the same kind of enforcement actions that other countries have taken at wto looks at the rules and says, this is kosher and this is not. in this case, because it is based on almost a year of research -- this is about national security, and the wto is a national secured exception -- this action might actually stand for the u.s., whereas the steel action was based in a different part of the trade law and was ruled to be a wto violation. juan: in essence, what i'm ori, this is lro more of a political action to basically get some of the other countries to pay attention and to negotiate a better relations in terms of trade. michael hudson, this whole issue of where we are putting tariffs. clearly, the united states has monopolies in some areas that other countries could retaliate against. for instance, the pharmaceutical ind