The following is excerpted from a 15 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.
Mexico notified the WTO Secretariat on 15 October 2012 of a request for consultations with China concerning several measures allegedly taken by China to support the production and exports of clothing and textile products. It said it had requested consultations because China appears to maintain a wide variety of measures that support producers and exporters of apparel and textile products, both directly and indirectly. It added that these measures appear to involve both prohibited and actionable subsidies that are inconsistent with China’s obligations under the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement, GATT 1994, the Agreement on Agriculture, and China’s Accession Protocol.
This item is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news12_e/ds451rfc_15oct12_e.htm