WTO panel issues report on China anti-dumping complaints
03/11/2011
The European Commission began applying anti-dumping duties of 16.5% on imports of leather shoes from China in 2006; the measures stayed in place until March 2011, but before then China had sent a wide-reaching set of formal complaints to the WTO saying the measures were unfair.
China said the European authorities ought to have determined an individual margin of dumping for each known exporter or producer concerned, naming individual suppliers in each case and collecting an appropriate amount in anti-dumping duty from each. Instead, the European Commission applied the 16.5% duty to all exporters of shoes with leather uppers made in China.
Reporting at the end of October, the WTO panel found that for the European Union to apply the same level of duty to all suppliers was "inconsistent with its obligations", but it rejected "the bulk of China's specific claims".
This link is to a summary of the dispute and of the panel's findings on these specific claims WTO panel report.
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