EU LAUNCHES WTO CASE OVER CHINA METAL EXPORT RESTRICTIONS
November 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has launched formal disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to challenge Chinese export restrictions on key raw materials, including six non-ferrous metals (or key inputs). Brussels is upset Beijing is preventing the free sale abroad of bauxite, fluorspar, magnesium, manganese, silicon metal and zinc (and some other non-metallic minerals). EU trade Commissioner Caroline Ashton said the EU had tried and failed to solve its dispute with China over these problems without recourse to WTO arbitration. ...
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