China halts some wind-energy subsidies that US agency said violated WT O rules

摘要

In a victory for US manufacturers and wind-energy companies,nthe Obama administration announced last week thatnChina has agreed to halt certain subsidies for its domestic windenergynindustry that the US alleged were illegal under the freetradenprovisions of the World Trade Organization.nRon Kirk, the US trade representative, had asked thenGeneva-based WTO to investigate China’s wind-energy subsidiesnafter a major US steelworkers’ union complained that China’snsupport for locally manufactured wind turbines constituted annunlawful prohibition against equipment made from US-sourcednsteel.