Briefs, November 18, 2012
China says it will change its restrictive policy on certain steel imports from the United States after the World Trade Organisation declared it was in breach of international trade rules.
Nine people were killed in a series of collisions yesterday on roads in the southwest, traffic police said. In Anshun, Guizhou, a total of 36 vehicles collided along a one-kilometre section of the expressway linking Shanghai and Kunming at 9am as a result of fog, police said. Seven cars caught fire. Xinhua
China says it will change its restrictive policy on certain steel imports from the United States after the World Trade Organisation declared it was in breach of international trade rules. After a meeting of the WTO's dispute settlement body in Geneva, China said that although it "may not agree" with all the WTO's findings, it would respect and "work hard to implement" them. Last month the WTO's appellate body upheld a US complaint that Chinese duties on its high-value specialist magnetic rolled steel were illegal. AFP