US gains trade victory in auto dispute with china, Report

The Usa on Friday won an international trade case against China for duties placed on imports of yankee automobiles, a victory that Obama administration officials hoped would prevent Beijing from enacting discriminatory taxes later on.

The body’s decision that China violated WTO rules if this imposed import duties as high as 21.Five percent on vehicles made in the US with engines of two.5 liters and above was an important win for the American auto industry, whose exports to China last year totaled some $8.6 billion.

US Trade Representative Michael Froman welcomed the decision but said he still thought it was troublesome that Washington needed to bring three WTO cases against China to begin with.

“We remain deeply concerned through the troubling pattern of China’s misuse of anti-dumping and countervailing duty measures,” Froman told reporters.
He explained the duties, which expired at the end of 2019, affected $5.1 billion in American auto exports to China that year.

The case against China came on behalf of nine automakers with factories in the US, including three major American companies and six foreign ones. In addition to Vehicle, Ford and Chrysler, some non-US brands for example BMW, Mercedes, Honda and Toyota were also represented.