China appeals WTO ruling on raw materials exports

A little over two weeks ago, a WTO panel released its decision in a dispute between the US and China over the United States' imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties (CVDs) against imports from China.  The ruling covers a lot of interesting and important US-China trade issues, including whether the simultaneous imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties against Chinese imports results in "double remedies" on those imports and whether such double counting violates WTO rules.

Yesterday, I took the first of what will likely be many looks at the Appellate Body's new "US-China CVD" decision and concluded that, from a legal perspective, the decision would have pretty significant (and likely adverse) implications for the United States Government.  From a policy perspective, however, it appears that Friday's ruling has cost the US much, much more, and the Obama administration only has itself to blame.

China is expected to appeal a ruling by the World Trade Organisation that it illegally restricted exports of key raw materials

As you may recall, when the United States passed a law in March 2012 overruling a couple federal court decisions and retroactively applying US law to scads of completed countervailing duty investigations of Chinese imports, I explained that the law's illogical, biased structure - in particular, not addressing WTO-inconsistent "double counting" in any case completed before the law's enactment - all but guaranteed at least one WTO cha

(GENEVA) — The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that China unfairly limited exports of nine raw materials to protect domestic manufacturers. A WTO appeals body rejected China’s appeal of an earlier ruling in July that concluded the Asian economic powerhouse had violated international trade rules.

Last week the World Trade Organization, in particular China's membership in the global trade body, came under scrutiny from the anti-trade left and, surprisingly, the (mostly) pro-trade right.  The former's response was totally expected as the logical extension of anti-traders' longstanding "strategy" of seizing on some new headline as ex post justification for their opposition to trade liberalization.

China said Tuesday it regretted the World Trade Organisation's rejection of its complaint against punitive US tariffs on Chinese tyres and would appeal "at an appropriate time".The commerce ministry said in a statement that it "regretted the ruling" and was "deeply concerned about the potential negative impact" of the decision.It added that China would "carefully research the dispute settlement panel's report and appeal at an appropriate time to protect the Chinese industries' legal rights and interests".

China said Tuesday it regretted the World Trade Organisation's rejection of its complaint against punitive US tariffs on Chinese tyres and would appeal "at an appropriate time".The commerce ministry said in a statement that it "regretted the ruling" and was "deeply concerned about the potential negative impact" of the decision.It added that China would "carefully research the dispute settlement panel's report and appeal at an appropriate time to protect the Chinese industries' legal rights and interests".