There Are Double Standards For Antidumping In Europe And America.

The WTO dispute expert group of China Sumei tire special safeguard has ruled that the US special safeguard measures against the tire exported to China are not in violation of WTO rules. Chinese Economy and trade Experts pointed out that the ruling is likely to give the United States Trade A more assertive stance on the issue will provide further support for the risk of trade protectionism.

One side claimed that China exported tyre, steel and iron. footwear industry Such goods are subject to dumping duties and special protection of the goods, while the other side criticize China for export restrictions on raw materials for production of steel, aluminum, chemical products and high-tech products, and pressure China to relax and expand the export of these resource-based products at a low price. The anti-dumping and countervailing measures adopted by the United States and the EU are in essence a "double standard".

China has become the biggest victim of trade remedy measures since its accession to the world trade organization. This is indeed closely related to the labor-intensive low-end manufacturing products in China's export structure, but it is also related to the abuse of trade remedy measures by some countries in order to protect their own interests. Especially after the outbreak of the international financial crisis, European and American countries eager to get out of the crisis have repeatedly adopted the trade protectionism under the name of "double opposition".

Since the beginning of this year, more than 100 cases of anti dumping cases (including investigation, preliminary arbitration and arbitration) have been launched by various economies in the world. In addition to the developed economies such as the United States and the European Union, some emerging economies have joined.

According to the Ministry of Commerce of China, since 2009, the United States has launched 10 anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on Chinese products, 2 anti-dumping investigations and 1 special safeguard investigations. The frequency of filing cases is extremely rare in the history of world trade remedy, and the most important concern is the Sino US "tires war".

The United Steelworkers union launched a trade lawsuit against Chinese tire manufacturers in April last year. It said that Chinese enterprises' unfair competition from 2004 to 2008 led to a sharp increase in US car and truck tire exports for 4 years, resulting in the loss of American workers. Since then, China has filed a lawsuit against WTO. In December 13th, the WTO dispute settlement body distributed to the WTO members an expert group report on China's dispute over the US Special Safeguard Measures on tires.

China's Ministry of Commerce, 15, said that the expert group did not decide that the special safeguard measures taken by the United States against the tire exported to the United States violated WTO rules. China will carefully study the report of the expert group and lodge an appeal at the right time to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the Chinese industry.

At present, countries in Europe and the United States adopt the "alternative country system" or "analogy country system" when conducting anti-dumping investigations against China.

The so-called surrogate country system refers to the commodity that comes from the non market economy, when it determines its normal value, does not use the actual cost of the goods of its exporting country, and chooses a similar commodity price of a third country or an importing country in the market economy as the method of calculating the normal value. The market economy country adopted is usually referred to as the "substitute country".

Zhang Junsheng, an expert in WTO at China University of foreign trade, told reporters that such a system or method is actually an unfair way, because importing countries generally do not look for countries with lower production costs, but tend to go to countries with high export prices to propose anti dumping sales. "This is a very subjective factor in itself."

In fact, China's accession to the WTO has become the biggest victim of international anti-dumping. One of the main reasons is that the developed economies in Europe and the United States and even some developing members still regard China as a "non market economy country", and then adopt the "substitute country system" on the issue of "normal value", which is undoubtedly a kind of discrimination against China's export products.

"Many countries in Europe and the United States adopt" double standards "for whether China is a market economy country. When they say" not a market economy country "when they are anti dumping, they say" a market economy country "when countervailing. Zhang Yansheng, director of the Foreign Economic Research Institute of the China Development and Reform Commission, said," this kind of backsliding is essentially a consideration of the interests of one country and fundamentally violates the spirit of the world trade organization. "

As the basic text of China's accession to the WTO in 2001, the agreement on China's accession to the WTO stipulates that within fifteen years, other members of the WTO can continue to view China as a "non market economy country".

Analysts pointed out that, at present, it is impossible to abolish the system of substituting countries completely, how to formulate universally applicable and non discriminatory market economy standards and how to equitable, reasonable and scientific application of the substituting country system are the direction for China to strive for, and also a challenge to test the credibility of WTO.