September 08, 2008

China regrets AD action on tubes by Canada

China's Ministry of Commerce has voiced regret over Canada's initiation of investigations into the alleged injurious dumping and subsidizing of carbon steel welded pipe imported from China.

Mr Wang Xinpei spokesman of China's Ministry of Commerce said that “The government regretted that the Canadian authorities treated China's iron and steel industry as a non market-oriented industry and started investigations even after China removed the export rebate and levied a 15% export duty on the product.”

Mr Wang said “By investigating so frequently, the Canadian authorities had been sending the wrong signal to other WTO members and that it would hurt the sustainable and steady development of bilateral trade.”

He hoped the Canadian authorities would carry out the investigations in strict accordance with WTO regulations and Canadian law and in an impartial and transparent way.

He however added that China would retain the right of appeal to the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism.

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal initiated a preliminary injury inquiry into a complaint on January 24th 2008 by ArcelorMittal, that it had suffered injury as result of dumped and subsidized imports of carbon steel welded pipe originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China.