Investigation on anti-subsidy of Chinese coated paper by EU

Adopt discriminatory, unjust "alternative country" practices, the Ministry of Commerce is strongly dissatisfied according to the Xinhua News agency, 17th, the European Union of China's coated paper anti-dumping investigation, Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian said in this speech, the paper case is the EU's first anti-subsidy survey on Chinese products, the Chinese public and the industry strongly dissatisfied　　The Chinese Government expresses its serious concern. Yao pointed out that two months ago, the EU has launched anti-dumping investigations on Chinese coated paper and adopted a discriminatory and unjust "alternative country" in anti-dumping investigations, on the other hand, launched countervailing investigations on Chinese products without acknowledging the status of China's market economy.　　This constitutes double discrimination against Chinese products and violates WTO rules. Yao said the EU's launch of countervailing investigations into China was a false protectionist signal to outsiders. In recent years, China-EU economic and trade relations have a healthy development trend, and each of them is an important trading partner.　　China believes that the two sides should proceed from the objective of safeguarding and stabilizing the international trade environment, follow the policy of development, equality and mutual benefit, properly handle economic and trade frictions through consultation and cooperation, take care of each other's concerns and achieve mutual benefit. Yao stressed that the current international economic recovery signs, but still face the deficit and debt, financial system fragile, market demand is not enough risk, especially trade protectionism is still spreading. At this critical juncture, the Chinese side is highly concerned about the decision taken by the European side and the negative impact it has made. China will closely monitor the progress of cases in accordance with WTO rules and reserve the right to take further measures.