China adds Commerce memo, preliminary AD decisions to WTO complaint over non-market economy status

A Commerce Department memo and three preliminary antidumping determinations violate World Trade Organization rules, China claims in an updated version of its request for consultations with U.S. at the WTO over its continued treatment as a non-market economy. A Nov. 3 communication publicly released on Nov. 8 updates China’s initial Dec. 12, 2016, request for consultations with the United States over its treatment of China as an NME for the purposes of AD cases. China believes that the December 2015...