Industrial Minerals


UPDATE: No appeal route for China in WTO ruling

02 February 2012

by Jessica Roberts

China must take action to conform to WTO obligations – lawyer

Keywords: World Trade Organization, WTO, fluorspar, Clyde & Co, GATT

The Chinese government will not be able to appeal against the latest recommendations from the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding its trade restrictions on certain steelmaking raw materials, John Whittaker, partner at UK law firm Clyde & Co. LLP, told IM.

 

“There will be no appeal from the award. The recommendations of the appeal body are broadly in line with those of first instance which means that China needs to take action so that [it conforms] within a ‘reasonable period of time’ to [its]...