The United States today stepped up its trade confrontation with China, ordering an investigation into aluminium sheet imports worth hundreds of millions a year.
The Commerce Department said it opened the probes into possible dumping and inappropriate subsidies of "common alloy aluminium sheet" from China. For the first time since 1991 it launched the investigation on its own initiative, rather than responding to a request from a US company.
"We are self-initiating the first trade case in over a quarter century, showing once again that we stand in constant vigilance in support of free, fair, and reciprocal trade," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement.
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