... numerous WTO and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ministerial meetings in my official capacity. In a book I wrote after my retirement, I talked at length about the then British Hong Kong government’ ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-06
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has upheld a ruling that China violated international trade rules with its export restrictions on rare-earth minerals, Reuters reported Thursday. "... China has not ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-08
The World Trade Organization (WTO) failed on Thursday to reach a deal to standardize customs rules as India demanded concessions on agricultural stockpiling, Reuters reported. "We have not been able t ...More
EJ Insight2014-08-01
... ating the WTO rules, the minister said, urging the US to correct its ways. They "should not become a negative model for breaking the rules", Gao was quoted as saying in comments carried on the ministr ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-18
... onday. A WTO dispute panel ruled in March against China's claim that the US "Public Law 112-99" broke world trade rules. China appealed but the Appellate Body said it did not have the information to ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-08
... eated the WTO two decades ago. As the World Health Organization declared: "governments should tax the things which make people ill, not the things which make them well." To be sure, tax cuts would not ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-03
... nization (WTO). Yi Xiaozhun represented China before he became WTO deputy director general, according to the Hong Kong Economic Journal, parent of EJ Insight. The large number of Chinese diplomats in ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-20
China is preparing to scrap tariffs and quotas on exports of rare earths after a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel found the rules discriminatory, Reuters reported, citing a source with knowledge o ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-05
... onth, the WTO ruled in favor of the United States, the European Union and Japan which accused Beijing of violating trade rules by imposing quotas on rare earth exports. The minerals are used in a rang ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-17
Two years after the United States, the European Union and Japan filed a complaint in the World Trade Organization (WTO) against China’s export restrictions on rare earths, the WTO issued a panel repor ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-15
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has raised its forecast for global trade growth this year to 4.7 per cent, the Financial Times reported Monday. However, it warned that a slowdown in developing econ ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-15
China has filed an appeal to the World Trade Organization, seeking to overthrow a ruling by a WTO panel that a US tariff act amendment was consistent with WTO rules, the official Xinhua News Agency re ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-10
... mework of WTO [World Trade Organization] and international standards to protect the interests of a small country like Taiwan. “All the world knows that China gives economic help only to achieve a poli ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-31
A World Trade Organization panel of experts has ruled in favor of China that the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures in the US revised customs law are against the WTO rules, the Economic Informatio ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-28
... lied with WTO rules and addressed environmental concerns. China has 23 percent of the world's rare earth reserves and supplies over 90 percent of the world's demand. The United States has lowered its ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-28
... rs said. WTO rules against China on rare earth export curbs The World Trade Organization's panel of experts has determined that China’s restrictions on the export of rare earths, including tungsten a ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-27
... while the WTO will publish its final ruling in three to four months. Chen Zhanheng, deputy secretary general of the Association of China Rare Earth Industry, said it will take action in response to th ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-27
... han other WTO members." It warned that if the pact was not passed, there would be negative consequences. "Our service industries will lose the advantage of early entry to the mainland market. Our acce ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-24
China's implementation of World Trade Organization rulings in a steel dispute with the United States will come under the microscope of a WTO Dispute Settlement Body panel, Xinhua reported Thursday. A ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-27
... oined the WTO in 2001, more than twice as many cases as any other WTO member has brought against China. In its 2013 report to Congress on China’s WTO compliance, the US Trade Representative attributed ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-04
