Do the large number of filings against Chinese imports portend continuing trade friction?
China’s role in the international economy is evident by not only the demand for imports to the U.S. of hi-tech consumer products but also by the growing number of exports of manufactured products from China. These exports have encountered increased complaints from U.S. companies that products are being sold in the United States at less than their fair value (called “dumping”) or that such products violate a U.S. patent or were produced using a process that violates a U.S. patent (a violation of “section 337”). Since 1999, the majority of Section 337 investigations have involved China. On the dumping front, the percentage of antidumping cases filed against China has nearly doubled. Since last year alone, sixty percent of the antidumping cases filed at the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission have involved imports from China. In fact, all of the antidumping petitions that have been filed in 2006 have involved China. Conducted by distinguished leading experts
