The World Trade Organization's ruling that authorizes China to impose 645 million of compensatory tariffs against the United States is a victory for multilateralism and free trade, and highlights the failure of the US to abide by WTO rules that it's obliged to follow, experts and business leaders said on Thursday.
Their comments came after the trade body decided on Wednesday to allow China to impose the tariffs. This followed China's challenge at the Geneva-based organization in 2012 against countervailing duty investigations by the US that led to the imposition of anti-subsidy duties from 2008 to 2012 on 22 Chinese products ranging from solar panels to steel wire.
China also challenged the US claim that majority government ownership is sufficient to treat an enterprise as a "public body".
"The ruling was of great significance to rebut the illicit countervailing practices of the US, protect the legitimate trade interests of Chinese enterprises and safeguard the multilateral trading system," the Ministry of Commerce said in an online statement.
JAV turi nustoti ieškoti bet kokių pasiteisinimų ir nedelsiant imtis veiksmų, kad ištaisytų savo nusižengimus prekybos gynimo priemonių tyrimuose prieš Kiniją, sakoma pareiškime.
Analysts said the ruling has again sent a clear message that the US violated WTO trade rules. The decision also boosts global confidence in the multilateral trading system's authority, they added.
"The ruling is important to correct wrong practices in global trade by some countries. It is expected to serve as a measure to punish unilateral and hegemonistic behavior," said Huo Jianguo, vice-chairman of the China Society for World Trade Organization Studies.
Xia Aimin, CEO of Tianjin Shangdian Qinding Energy Technology Co, who previously worked for a company that went bankrupt after the imposition of US anti-subsidy tariffs, said the ruling was an example of "belated, but welcome justice".
Pasak jo, Kinijos saulės baterijų gaminiai ir toliau yra labai populiarūs pasaulio rinkose dėl aukštos kokybės ir konkurencingų kainų. Dėl pastarųjų prekybos ginčų patirties Kinijos įmonės dabar yra geriau pasirengusios verslui pasaulinėse rinkose, pridūrė Xia.
Linas Shenas, Kinijos socialinių mokslų akademijos Pasaulio ekonomikos ir politikos instituto mokslininkas, teigė, kad geriausias būdas vykdyti laisvą prekybą, kaip visada teigia JAV, yra laikytis PPO taisyklių.
It is groundless for some countries to negate China's status as being a developing country and make wrongful allegations about China's economic model, including criticisms of Chinese State-owned enterprises' ways of doing business, which abide by market rules, he added.
2019 m. lapkritį PPO suteikė Kinijai teisę įvesti 3,58 mlrd. eurų atsakomuosius muitus JAV prekėms, nustačiusi kaltę dėl kai kurių JAV antidempingo priemonių Kinijai.
2018 ir 2019 metais JAV taip pat įvedė papildomus muitus Kinijos importui, tačiau PPO komisija 2020 metais nusprendė, kad JAV pažeidė savo įsipareigojimus PPO.
