At a meeting of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures today, issues related to the EU's countervailing duty investigation on Chinese electric vehicles, subsidies and overcapacity, and U.S. semiconductor subsidies were all discussed.

Earlier this week, the European Commission issued a provisional determination in an anti-dumping investigation on certain alkyl phosphate esters from China, setting duty rates that range from 45.1% to 68.4%.

Today, the European Commission published an updated report on "significant state-induced distortions" in the Chinese economy, which provides a basis for replacing distorted Chinese prices and costs in a particular sector with prices and costs from a third country with undistorted market conditions, as part of an anti-dumping

Yesterday, the European Commission announced that it had imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate ("PET") from China, affirming the provisional duties it imposed last November.

In a report circulated today, a WTO panel found that certain aspects of Australian anti-dumping duties on Chinese wind towers, stainless steel sinks, and railway wheels violated the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement and the GATT.

Under a final rule published today, the U.S. Commerce Department will take into account "nonexistent, weak, or ineffective property (including intellectual property), human rights, labor, and environmental protections" in various ways as part of its anti-dumping/countervailing duty calculations. Chinese products are likely to be targeted here,

In a final rule to be published on March 25, the U.S. Commerce Department says that "when appropriate," it "will investigate and countervail transnational subsidies (i.e., subsidies provided by a government or public entity in one country that benefit producers or exporters in another country)