Commission Faces New Pressure On China NME From EP, Key Member States

The European Commission has come under increasing pressure from the European Parliament as well as France and Germany to take a new approach that would continue the use of non-market economy (NME) methodology for China in trade remedy cases after mid-December, as the U.S. government has maintained is possible. At that point, a key provision of China's accession protocol to the World Trade Organization expires, and the commission has up to now taken the position that NME methodology for China...