The?Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday dismissed a combined
anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation by the United States
into Chinese off-road tires as severely misplaced.
This?was the fifth such probe the US had launched
against Chinese imports in less than a year, said ministry
spokesman Wang Xinpei, adding that these repeated investigations
went against World Trade Organization rules.
The US launched dual investigations into China-made coated free
sheet paper in March, carbon steel tubes in June, into light-walled
rectangular pipes and tubes as well as laminated woven sacks in
July.
Wang said the probes were unfair to Chinese industry and
unhelpful to the development of a mutually beneficial Sino-US trade
relationship. He added it was an "unwise, wrong move".
China hoped the US would avoid complicating Sino-US trade issues
in this manner, said Wang.
Since the US does not treat China as a market economy, the use
of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures goes against its own
domestic rules and practices which dictate anti-subsidy measures do
not apply to non-market economies, a regulation that has been in
place for over two decades, Wang said on July 20.
(Xinhua News Agency, August 2 2007)
