China Files WTO Complaint Against EU, US

Ministry of Commerce spokesman Shen Danyang answers questions on Oct. 9 at a news conference in Beijing. Shen said that if the EU continued to adopt restrictive trade measures, the bloc's long-term economic interests would be adversely affected. Photo: Li Huisi/CNS photo

(Beijing) — China has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) that accuses the United States and the European Union of failing to comply with the international trade body's rules to stop using "surrogate pricing" to calculate anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese imports.

Beijing has complained the approach has led to unfairly high anti-dumping duties on Chinese products and has insisted the practice end by Dec. 11 — the 15th anniversary of the country's accession to the WTO. But some major trading partners, including the U.S., the EU and Japan, have refused to do so.

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