The very day after the expiry, on 11 December, of certain provisions of China's accession protocol to the WTO, which allowed the other member countries of the organisation to treat China as a non-market economy in their anti-dumping calculation methods, China announced that it had brought a complaint about the so-called substitute country method, used by the United States and the EU to calculate the anti-dumping duty to apply to Chinese exports, to the WTO.
When it joined the WTO in 2001,...