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U.S. requests WTO talks with China over agriculture import quotas

December 15, 2016 at 12:35 PM
The United States on Dec. 15 requested World Trade Organization consultations with China over its method of administering tariff-rate quotas for corn, wheat, and rice. The U.S. is alleging that China's TRQ management for those crops is “opaque and unpredictable,” and breaches Beijing's commitments in its WTO Accession Protocol and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The announcement was met with an avalanche of bipartisan support from members of Congress. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway (R-TX), welcoming the...

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