China was in May 13, he said the United States continues to impose countervailing duties in violation of the relevant finished the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement 2014 WTO and requested consultations with the United States to resolve the matter. Chinese trade officials said earlier that the export value of the issue annually affect about $ 7.2 billion.

Thursday (June 8), the US Department of Commerce agreed to comply with the WTO agreement in 2014, said it would recalculate the imports from China pipeline, the oil industry pipes, bricks and seamless steel pipe anti-dumping and countervailing duties in response to China this appeal.
However, the US Commerce Department said it would not change the tax net subsidy of some other product. These products include lawn beauty machine, kitchen shelves, steel cylinder, print graphics, aluminum, thermal paper, citric acid and steel cable.

The Commerce Department said the US countervailing duties China's Huludao pipeline from 33.43% down to 32.65%, and the other pipeline importing companies (in addition to Severstal) of countervailing duties reduced from 36.74 to 36.35 percent.

The Commerce Department also agreed to Tianjin Pipe Company OCTG countervailing duties from 10.49% down to 7.71%, and all other parts of Chinese OCTG company countervailing duty from 13.41% down to 12.26%. These areas do not include long warranty, Wuxi, Zhejiang and Jialing.

US Department of Commerce of the United States Dayton magnesia bricks anti-dumping duties from 253.87% to 232.63% cut, and all the other Chinese magnesia brick importers countervailing rate from 24.24% down to 3%.

The US Department of Commerce, Tianjin Steel Tube Company of seamless steel pipe anti-dumping duty from 13.66% down to 8.24%, down from Hengyang company from 56.67 to 49.56%, other Chinese importers of seamless steel subsidy rate from 35.17% down to 28.9%.

WTO rejected the US in 2014. "rebuttable presumption." At that time the US Department of Commerce that, under Article 1.1 Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement, majority government ownership of business enough to make it a "public body."

Previously, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body had urged the United States before April 1, 2016 to come up with concrete implementation measures.