WTO ESTABLISHES PANEL ON CHINA EXPORT TUNGSTEN AND MOLYBDENUM RESTRICTIONS
July 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The World Trade Organisation's (WTO) disputes settlement body today voted to establish a panel to assess whether China's export restrictions on tungsten, molybdenum (and rare earths) are illegal under global trade law. The panel has been created in record time after the USA, European Union (EU) and Japan called for a special meeting of the disputes settlement body earlier this month to speed up its establishment - it would have been created in September otherwise. Speaking to the meeting in Geneva, US representatives stressed the panel would ...
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