China is "strongly discontent" with unfair treatment of Chinese steel producers in trade investigations1 by the EU, an official said Thursday.
中国一位官员周四表示,中国对欧盟贸易调查中国钢铁生产企业的不公平待遇表示“强烈不满”。
"The EU still uses data from Brazil to calculate prices and costs of Chinese steel companies to artificially raise their dumping margins," said Wang Hejun, head of the trade remedy and
investigation2 bureau under the
Ministry3 of Commerce.
The approach the EU adopted is called a "surrogate country" approach, which facilitates trade remedies by using production and price data in a third country to calculate the degree of dumping. It expired on Dec. 11, 2016 according to the
protocol4 on China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) nearly two decades ago.
"The EU should
fulfill5 its duty written into the WTO protocol and treat Chinese firms fairly in its trade investigations," Wang said.
The European Commission on Thursday announced its final ruling to slap import duties ranging from 17.2 percent to 27.9 percent on
corrosion6 resistant7 steel from China, the latest signs of
friction8 on steel trade between the two economies.