China said yesterday it would challenge a WTO ruling against its restrictions on imported films, books and audio-visual products, continuing its sparring with Washington over trade access.
Beijing said last week it may appeal against the WTO panel’s ruling, which upheld key parts of a US complaint about China’s controls on cultural products, which Washington said hurt publishers, Hollywood and entertainment multinationals.
Now a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has said that appeal will certainly go ahead.
“We think it was improper for the WTO not to reject the US request,” the spokesman, Yao Jian (姚堅), told a news conference in Beijing. “Based on the WTO schedule, we are preparing the documents necessary to lodge an appeal.”
Yao did not give any other details of China’s appeal.
The continued dispute will add to the trade friction pitting Beijing against Washington.
US President Barack Obama must decide by Sept. 17 whether to restrict imports of car and light truck tires from China in a case that could unleash a flood of requests from other industries if he gives the nod.
The US trade deficit with China totaled US$103 billion in the first half of the year, down 13 percent from last year, but still a source of tension between the two.
The WTO panel said last week that China’s import and distribution regime for books and films breaks international trade rules, as well as the terms of China’s entry to the WTO in 2001, and should be revised.
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