The United States and Japan expressed their support for the EU at the meeting of the dispute settlement body (DSB) after the WTO agreed to China’s request for a panel to be set up to consider its complaint over the way the EU currently calculates anti-dumping duties (see EUROPE 11761).
Immediately after the expiry, on 11 December 2016, of certain provisions of China’s protocol of accession (in 2011) to the WTO, which allowed the other member countries of the organisation to treat China...