China ministry welcomes US courts ruling over Hebei tire case

China welcomed the decision of the United States Court of International Trade to rule the US Department of Commerce (DOC) as "unreasonable" for its imposition of anti-dumping duties (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) on tires from a Chinese maker, the Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday in an online statement.

The US court ruled on Sept 18 that the imposition of the DOC on Hebei Starbright Tyre Co Ltd might cause double counting as "while Commerce may have the authority to apply the CVD law to products from a non-market economy (NME)-designated country, the CVD and NME AD statutes are unclear as to how Commerce is to account for the overlap between the statutes when imposing both CVD and AD duties on goods from a NME country."

The US Department of Commerce decided on July 31, 2007, that it would launch AD and CVD probes simultaneously into China-made off-road tires.

China welcomed the decision of the United States Court of International Trade to rule the US Department of Commerce (DOC) as "unreasonable" for its imposition of anti-dumping duties (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) on tires from a Chinese maker, the Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday in an online statement.

The US court ruled on Sept 18 that the imposition of the DOC on Hebei Starbright Tyre Co Ltd might cause double counting as "while Commerce may have the authority to apply the CVD law to products from a non-market economy (NME)-designated country, the CVD and NME AD statutes are unclear as to how Commerce is to account for the overlap between the statutes when imposing both CVD and AD duties on goods from a NME country."

The US Department of Commerce decided on July 31, 2007, that it would launch AD and CVD probes simultaneously into China-made off-road tires.