WTO TELLS CHINA TO REFORM E-RAY SCANNER ANTIDUMPING DUTIES
March 8th, 2013
THE CHINESE government has been told by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to reform anti-dumping duties imposed on exports into China of x-ray security inspection equipment made in the European Union (EU). A WTO disputes panel found that some calculations made by China’s commerce ministry when setting the duties breached the WTO’s anti-dumping agreement. China must now amend the tariffs, maybe reducing them or removing them altogether – if it refuses, the EU could be given the right to impose retaliatory duties on Chinese exports to the EU.The duties are ...
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