China Updates Its Challenge to US Tariffs

China, which previously asked for consultations with the U.S. at the World Trade Organization over steel and aluminum tariffs and two previous rounds of Section 301 tariffs (see 1808270020), asked on Sept.18 for consultations on tariffs that will be levied next week on $200 billion in Chinese goods. As with the previous cases, China says the measures violate WTO rules by imposing higher tariffs on China than on other countries, by exceeding U.S.-agreed bound rates, and because the U.S. did not go through the dispute resolution system at the WTO before acting.