On Friday 10 March, China requested the WTO set up a dispute settlement body (DSB) after the failure of it consultations with the EU at the end of January. The country would like the DSB to arbitrate in its complaint on the EU's current anti-dumping methodology (DS 516).
The very day after the expiry, on 11 December 2016, 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...