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U.S. Requests Panel With China Over Alleged 'Demonstration Bases' Subsidies

April 9, 2015 at 6:12 PM
The United States has requested a World Trade Organization panel with China over what it charges are prohibited export subsidies that Beijing provided to companies operating in 178 industrial clusters known as “demonstration bases,” Geneva sources said April 8. The U.S. will formally request the panel at an April 22 Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) meeting, these sources said. The U.S. and China held two rounds of consultations over the demonstration bases program on March 13 and April 1-2, but they...

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