China strongly opposes US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy
investigations into steel tubes and woven sacks imported from
China, a spokesman with the Ministry of Commerce said on
Friday.
The US Department of Commerce announced this week it would
officially launched the investigations into imports of light-walled
rectangular pipes and tubes and laminated woven sacks used to
package dog food, bird seed and other products.
In June, 12 US steel manufacturers and the US Laminated Woven
Sacks Committee complained to the US government of unfair pricing
of steel pipes and woven sacks imported from China.
"The US government continues the mistake of imposing
anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures from time to time," Wang
Xinpei said.
In March and June, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) started
anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese coated
free sheet paper and carbon steel tubes.
"These investigations have aroused strong dissatisfaction in
Chinese business circles," Wang said.
Wang said that as the US did not treat China as a market
economy, the use of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures also
infringed US rules and its tradition of not adopting anti-subsidy
measures against non-market economies, which had been practiced for
more than two decades.
Wang said the move threatened Sino-US economic and trade ties
and China would assert its rights as a WTO member if the United
States maintained the measures.
(Xinhua News Agency July 21, 2007)
