Trump’s Solar-Panel Tariffs Survive China’s Challenge at WTO
- China didn’t show how U.S. safeguards failed to meet WTO rules
- Trump administration set tariff-rate quotas on Chinese imports
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A World Trade Organization dispute panel rejected all four of China’s claims against the U.S. relating to safeguard measures that the Trump administration imposed on solar panels imported from Chinese manufacturers.
China didn’t establish that Washington’s safeguards against imports of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells are inconsistent with the WTO’s rules on the measures, the Geneva-based body said in a report published Thursday.