USA – CHINA: WTO QUESTIONS

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE UNITED States government has thrown doubt on whether the China has scrapped 'temporary' safeguard duties that were imposed by Beijing last May on nine steel products imported from the US, tariffs that were supposed to lapse by November 2002. In a unusual and rather undiplomatic note, released publicly at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Washington asks "have the provisional measures expired as scheduled?" also demanding dates and public record references proving their abolition. The US also has pointed questions about the exempting of South ...


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