Obama Opens Broad Challenge to China Export Aid in WTO Case

The Obama administration opened a broad challenge to China’s subsidy program, which it said unfairly benefits exports of a range of products from shrimp to steel while harming U.S. companies and workers.

The U.S. initiated the case Wednesday at the World Trade Organization accusing China of making companies in seven industries eligible for incentives for computer or training services at 179 domestic “demonstration bases” across the country, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said.