International Law

US-China Tire Case - Part I

By Stan

I am coming to this story very late, so apologies for that. I have a huge number of stories on this, so it will take me several days to get through it all.

I considered researching everything and coming up with a consolidated, cogent and efficient post on the topic. I then realized how much time and effort that would entail and decided against it. Mea culpa.

Given time constraints, I think I’ll instead run a series of posts on some of the better/more interesting stories I have run across on the issue, particularly how this trade dispute relates to the overall trade picture. As you are no doubt aware, the US-China bilateral relationship is getting a bit weird at the moment, with trade issues heating up quite a lot during the past couple of weeks. This tire case is just one piece of the puzzle.

Right, to start things off, a little background. This will be just a bit painful, but important. The debate over tires is not your typical anti-dumping or discriminatory trade action that you hear about on a regular basis. The specific mechanism that will be used by the US stems from the agreement China signed when it acceded to the WTO — referred to as the Accession Protocol.
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