The US has overtaken India as the leading user of anti-dumping and other trade defense cases, with China and its steel sector the biggest target, according to research. The Financial Times reports the data highlight the growing anxieties in some sectors of industry about what they see as unfair competition from Chinese rivals, and point to the vast gap in the use of such cases between the US and EU, where a debate is under way over whether to grant China “market economy” status in the World Trade Organization, a concession that would make it even harder to bring anti-dumping cases. Companies in the US launched 43 anti-dumping cases in 2015 and a further 22 anti-subsidy investigations.
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