U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced that the United States has some U.S. cars to impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties (referred to as "dual" tax) complaints to the WTO.
Kirk said the United States has requested to begin negotiations with China to resolve the above dispute under the WTO, he also claimed that "this seems to be another representative of the abuse of trade remedy measures."
In accordance with WTO rules, the consultation is the first step in the organization's dispute settlement, to no avail if the parties to the dispute within 60 days of consultations, the complaining party the right to request the establishment of the WTO dispute settlement panels.
The existence of dumping and subsidies by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce in December last year, U.S. exports to China part of the car on the grounds, announced levy the tariffs of the "double reverse" displacement originating in the United States imported more than 2.5 liters cars and sport utility vehicles, the implementation deadline 2 years from December 15, 2011 until December 14, 2013.
According to the U.S. Trade Representative's office said last year, U.S. exports to displacement of 2.5 liters more than cars and the value of off-road vehicles over 3 billion U.S. dollars. The White House said the Chinese tax vehicles, including 80 percent of U.S. exports to China Automotive.
This is the third of the Obama administration complained to the WTO trade disputes with China, after the United States was also China's tariffs on certain steel products and chicken products to the WTO appeal.
It is worth noting that Kirk announced the decision coincided with U.S. President Barack Obama to the U.S. manufacturing sector, the largest state of Ohio and Pennsylvania, presidential rally for re-election, which the Ohio production of the Jeep Wrangler is also subject to the above " against "the impact of the tax. Day in Ohio, Obama can not wait to announce the above complaint information.
This year is the U.S. presidential election year, analysts believe that this year the Obama administration frequently to China to take a tough trade measures in order to respond to the accusations of his Republican rival Mitt Romney, Romney has been shelling his China policy is too weak.
U.S. accusations of Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming reporters after the end of last year, the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the WTO conference, said that China under the WTO rules and enterprise applications, the public and compliance investigations, imports from the United States The big cars to take anti-dumping and countervailing measures, in line with WTO rules, is not trade protectionism.
In fact, due to the weak U.S. domestic economy in recent years, the U.S. trade protectionism, China to take measures to "dual" have become increasingly frequent. According to WTO data, in 2011 the U.S. "double reverse" measures the total number increased by 400 percent, while the implementation of China's "double reverse" measures the number of cases has decreased by 50%.
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