Xi Touches On Brewing Legal Fight Over China's Status In Dumping Cases
Chinese President Xi Jinping touched on an exceedingly technical but highly controversial legal debate late last week when he said during a visit to Washington that U.S. recognition of China as a market economy would "help expand the mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries." At the center of this debate is a provision in the protocol governing China's 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization, which allows importing WTO members to disregard Chinese prices and costs in antidumping (AD)...