China has won an interim ruling over the US ban on Chinese poultry exports from World Trade Organisation, which ruled the American curbs on Chinese poultry were violating international trade laws, the China Daily reported today.
The report said that the US ban violated the WTO's Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures that govern food safety measures in global trade, regulations on most-favoured-nation treatment and general elimination of quantitative restrictions under the WTO framework.
According to the report this was the first time that China had challenged US laws.
It quoted a Chinese commerce ministry official as saying, that the US was unlikely to attempt a similar ban next fiscal year, "for it will be regarded as open defiance of the latest WTO ruling."
The case is still under inquiry and the final ruling would depend on the US lodging an appeal under WTO regulations. If it were to lose again, the interim ruling would automaticcally become the final verdict.
The US ban on poultry imports refers to provision 727 of its the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 that was passed by the US Congress and became law March 2009, prohibiting the US government from paying for the import of any poultry products from China.
In April China lodged a appeal against this law with the WTO, saying it violated the world body's global trade rules.
The WTO upheld the Chinese contention, deeming the paymetn restriction imposed on the government by the US Congress, as a de facto ban on Chinese poultry products.
the truth hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM8XLDl_MTw
America has one vote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohZ0M2slJ9g
OK how about we restrick what US Ports that Chinese poultry products enter the US to New Orleans, Miami and Houston and we restrict the usage of such “products” to gator farms in FL, LA and TX.
We don’t buy ANY food product from China. We read EVERY label on food we purchase. If I can’t find something not made in China we do without or substitute.
one more Idiot Award to the “China is our friend” Bush administration. Let’s let them in to the WTO, and give them MFN status, too.
All Obama has to do is issue a warning not to eat chinese foods due to safety reasons, maybe they can dramatize someone who got sick. That would solve that problem. The Chinese foods would not be bought.
Never put anything from China in your mouth.
How’s that WTO case for currency manipulation against China coming along?
5 year old dead chickens in my tacos? no thanks
At the risk of sounding like an anarchist, why in the world would there be such a thing as "an international trade law"?
The Founding Fathers would be enraged that the US would cede it's sovereignty to an international governing board, especially when it comes to how the US - a sovereign nation - negotiates, enforces or withdraws from it's own trade agreements.
Joining the WTO was a HUGE mistake. It was designed expressly to take pressure and responsibility from precisely where it should be and solely - our duly elected political representatives.
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Passed with CAFTA under Bush.
I imagine McD’s and BK are very happy over ths decision.