The European Union last week rebutted several arguments the U.S. has advanced to defend its Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods, contending in Geneva that they undermine the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement system. In a third-party submission backing China's challenge of the Section 301 tariffs published on Sept. 11, the EU argues against the U.S. contention that a dispute settlement panel should rule that the U.S. and Beijing have reached their own solution to the dispute by imposing tariffs on each other. The U.S. has imposed tariffs on $362 worth of Chinese goods and China has retaliated in kind.
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