US challenges China non compliance in WTO CRGO steel dispute
Mr Michael Froman US Trade Representative announced that the United States is requesting that China enter into consultations regarding China's claim that it has brought its duties on US exports of grain oriented flat-rolled electrical steel (GOES) into compliance with WTO rules. AK Steel Corporation, based in Ohio, and Allegheny Ludlum, based in Pennsylvania, manufacture GOES.
China's actions cut off more than USD 250 million in exports of this high tech steel product and in 2012 the United States won a dispute at the WTO that China broke WTO rules with its imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on GOES. The United States continues to pursue this dispute to ensure that China follows through on its obligations under the ruling and does not further harm US exports and the American workers and firms that make them, by abusing trade remedies. This is the first time the United States has initiated a proceeding in the WTO to challenge a claim by China that it has complied in a WTO dispute.
Ambassador Froman said that "Supporting American jobs is our number one job. And to ensure that Americans see the full benefit of the rules and market access we have negotiated in our international trade agreements, the President put enforcement of America's rights in the global trading system on a par with opening markets for US Exports. The WTO found that China's duties are inconsistent with WTO rules. We were right, and China was wrong. Unfortunately, it appears that China has not corrected those inconsistencies. Today's action shows that when the United States steps up to the plate on trade enforcement, we will follow through."
(www.steelguru.com)
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
US challenges China
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