WTO DISMISSED CHINA APPEAL OVER COMPLEX AUTO PARTS IMPORT DUTY SYSTEM
December 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHINESE government has run out of legal options to fight the United States, the European Union (EU) and Canada over maintaining certain import duties it imposes on foreign auto-parts. The tariffs in question are levied when China-based assembly plants fail to use a designated minimum proportion of China-manufactured parts, and they have now been declared illegal once-and-for-all at the World Trade Organization (WTO). An appellate panel at its disputes settlement body has today (Mon Dec 15) rejected an appeal brought by China against a ruling ...
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