Recently,the Expert Group of the WTO Dispute Resolution Body ruled that the adoption of separate tax rates(discriminatory refusal to grant separate tax rates to Chinese export enterprises)and anti-dumping measures in targeted dumping(determination of dumping for specific types of products and calculation of dumping margins)in the US anti-dumping investigation against China violate WTO rules.

In April 2015,Shuangqian Tire Co.,Ltd.contacted the Ministry of Commerce of China through lawyers Zhang Yi and Jiang Liyong from our international trade team,and began seeking to resolve the extremely harsh practice of the United States in discriminating against granting separate tax rates to engineering tires(OTR)in the fifth administrative review ruling through the WTO dispute settlement body(if a separate tax rate is obtained,zero anti-dumping tax rate can be obtained).At that time,the Ministry of Commerce had filed a lawsuit with the WTO dispute resolution body regarding some practices applied by the United States in the anti-dumping investigation procedure against China.Through the efforts of our lawyers,the Ministry of Commerce of China finally included the decision of the fifth administrative review of Engineering Tire(OTR),which Shuangqian Company responded to,into the scope of evidence for the prosecution.

Once the ruling is finally passed by the WTO in the first half of next year,the United States must rescind or modify the erroneous determination of the separate tax rate in the anti-dumping review ruling for OTR.Shuangqian Public Notice will also obtain the qualification of separate tax rate in the re investigation process and obtain zero anti-dumping tax rate.

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