CHINA would study and could appeal the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that rejected Chinese claims in a dispute with the United States on extra duties on Chinese goods, China s Ministry of Commerce said.
The Chinese side will carefully study the report and under the WTO dispute settlement procedures, handle issues such as an appeal, the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site.
The case involved treatment of goods from a country that is not a market economy, where the state sets or influences prices.
The WTO ruling backed the right of an importer to set duties on goods from such economies to compensate for unfair pricing and for subsidies.
The two-year-old dispute turned on duties imposed by the United States on imports of Chinese steel pipes, off-road tyres and woven sacks.
The panel did back some Chinese complaints and called on the United States to bring its measures in line with WTO rules where they breached them.
China said Saturday it was concerned about parts of the ruling made by the WTO in the anti-dumping dispute.
The United States had introduced tariffs of around 25 percent on Chinese pipes to prevent subsidized goods being dumped on the U.S. market.
On Friday, the WTO s dispute settlement body partly rejected the Chinese complaint, although it found that the U.S. Department of Commerce had acted inconsistently with WTO rules on five elements of the case.
But it rejected China s contentions on at least 12 points, according to the ruling, which Washington claimed as a win for American workers and businesses affected by unfairly traded imports. (SD-Agencies)
