USCIB Tells USTR There Are On-Going Concerns About China's WTO Compliance
Members of the U.S. Council for International Business continue to have on-going concerns with China's compliance with its World Trade Organization commitments in horizontal areas (antidumping, certification, licensing, IPR, government procurement, market access, regulatory environment, standards, SOEs and taxation), sector specific concerns (ag bio, audiovisual, chemicals, customs, electronic payments, express delivery, pharma, software, telecommunications) and in such areas as certification licensing and testing requirements, USCIB said in its 2012 statement to U.S. Trade Representative on China's compliance with its WTO commitments, following an earlier Federal Register notice. (See ITT's Online Archives 12101028).
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USCIB members want more transparency and better efforts at consistency with regard to China's regulatory agencies as well as increased efforts at meeting their WTO obligations, the filing said. The USCIB China Committee and Trade & Investment Committee also met for a briefing with Audrey Winter, deputy assistant USTR for China Affairs, it said. Winter briefed the group on the current environment of bi-lateral economic relations between the U.S. and China and gave a snapshot of what is currently on the agenda for USTR with regard to China, it said. Winter said then that there is no public date for the next JCCT meetings but there is hope that there may be a meeting before the end of the year, USCIB said.