China blasts U.S. submission backing EU in NME dispute

The Chinese Ministry Commerce has expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with the U.S. decision to file a third-party submission at the World Trade Organization in opposition to China’s complaint that the European Union ought to treat it as a market economy in antidumping cases, the Chinese state-run media outlet Xinhua reported Saturday. “China is strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposes the rejection, as the U.S. government tried to mix the concepts of the surrogate country approach and market economy status to mislead the...