MEXICO CASE AGAINST CHINA COULD BE ‘MOTHER OF ALL DISPUTES’ ON STATE SUBSIDIES
October 1st, 2012
BY DANIEL PRUZIN, IN GENEVA
MEXICO'S World Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge to Chinese subsidies for textile and clothing producers could be the most serious challenge yet to Beijing's activist industrial policies, according to trade diplomats and legal experts in Geneva. The breadth of the Chinese measures being challenged makes it potentially the "mother of all dispute cases," commented one trade official to just-style.
Mexico initiated the proceedings October 15 by requesting formal WTO-based consultations with China to address its claims that ...
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