China urges US to drop surrogate nation approach
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CHINA yesterday urged the United States to abandon a surrogate country approach it uses to calculate anti-dumping measures against Chinese exports, as a related clause in China’s World Trade Organization deal is set to expire.
When China joined the WTO in 2001, it agreed to let WTO members treat it as a non-market economy when assessing dumping duties for 15 years. That gave trade partners the advantage of using a third country’s prices to gauge whether China was selling its goods below market value.
But that clause is due to expire on December 11, and China has demanded that countries abide by the agreement.
US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said in November that the time was “not ripe” for the US to change the way it evaluates whether China has achieved market economy status, and there was no international trade rules requiring changes in the way US anti-dumping duties are calculated.
Shen Danyang, spokesman for China’s Ministry of Commerce, said the US should stop using its own market economy evaluations to deny China’s “rights.”
“It’s a right that China must enjoy as a WTO member and an obligation that all WTO countries must fulfill,” Shen said told reporters during a regular briefing.
“China advises the United States to stop mixing things and escaping its international obligations. China calls for the United States to fully comply with the rule in a timely manner, and push for healthy development of China-US trade relations,” Shen said.
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