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U.S., China Set To Hold Second Round Of WTO Consultations On Export Bases

March 30, 2015 at 2:27 PM
U.S. and Chinese officials will meet in early April for a second round of World Trade Organization consultations over U.S. allegations that Beijing provided prohibited export subsidies to companies operating in 178 industrial clusters known as “demonstration bases,” according to a spokesman for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The second round comes after the two sides held an initial meeting on March 13 to discuss the U.S. allegations. But those talks apparently failed to adequately address Washington's complaints...


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