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China slams Commerce’s self-initiated aluminum AD, CVD probes

December 4, 2017 at 1:40 PM
The Trump administration is looking to score easy political points at the cost of a stable bilateral trade relationship with China by self-initiating antidumping and countervailing duty probes into Chinese aluminum, the state-run media outlet Xinhua wrote in a commentary published Monday. The commentary also warned that the cases could cause China to retaliate. “The recent move is not reasonable from an economic and trade perspective, but makes sense in the political scale since U.S. domestic politicians and lobby groups...


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