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China warns US over trade row

By Alan Beattie in London

Published: September 15 2007 01:06 | Last updated: September 15 2007 01:06

China on Friday threatened the US with litigation at the World Trade Organisation for imposing anti-subsidy duties on its paper exports, in only the second dispute Beijing has brought since joining the WTO in 2001.

The move marks a further escalation of trade friction between the two nations and follows an abrupt change of policy by the US, which broke a 23-year precedent by imposing so-called “countervailing duties” on exports from what it ­designates as a non-market economy.

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