Report from our newspaper, Beijing, February 26 (Reporter Wang Junling) Recently, the Office of the United States Trade Representative released the "Report on China's Fulfillment of its WTO Accession Commitments in 2023", denying China's achievements in fulfilling its commitments to join the WTO, and accusing China's economic and trade system and policies of having a negative impact on the world. Trade poses huge challenges.
On the 26th, the head of the World Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce made it clear that China has noticed the false accusations in this report and firmly opposes it.
The official said that the United States ignores China's great achievements in fulfilling its WTO commitments, distorts China's remarkable achievements in building a socialist market economy and reform and opening up, and denies China's important contributions to the multilateral trading system and world economic development. It accuses China's economic and trade policies with arbitrary and unfounded standards, falsely claims that China's legitimate trade measures are "economic coercion", confuses right and wrong, labels China's response measures due to the US blockade and suppression as "active decoupling", and falsely claims that China has caused "production capacity" "Excess" fully reflects the unilateralism and bullying behavior of the United States.
The person in charge said that since joining the WTO, China, as the largest developing member, has always firmly supported the multilateral trading system, practiced true multilateralism, earnestly fulfilled its WTO commitments, and continuously improved the socialist market economic system and legal system based on its national conditions. , expand high-level institutional openness, fully and deeply participate in WTO reform, and actively help other developing members, especially the least developed countries, integrate into the multilateral trading system.
In the past year, China has played a positive and constructive role by becoming the first major developing country to complete the ratification of the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement, leading the completion of text negotiations on the Investment Facilitation Agreement, and promoting the WTO to substantially conclude negotiations on some global digital trade rules. It has been highly appreciated by all parties, and its contribution to the WTO and global economic and trade development is obvious to all.
The person in charge said that in recent years, the United States has used "America First" as its starting point, violated WTO rules, implemented unilateral trade bullying, formulated discriminatory industrial policies, disrupted the global industrial and supply chains, seriously affected the international trade order, and damaged the WTO The Chinese side and other members have expressed their concerns on many occasions.
When the WTO dispute settlement body has ruled that relevant US measures violate WTO rules, the United States not only refuses to implement the WTO ruling, but also "paralyzes" the WTO's appellate body, causing serious damage to the multilateral trading system.
The U.S. does not reflect on and correct its own behavior, but instead uses smear and blame-shifting methods to cover up its violations and sabotage. This is extremely irresponsible.
“We once again call on the United States to promptly correct its wrong words and deeds, earnestly abide by WTO rules and its own commitments, and work with other members, including China, to jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system with the WTO at its core and based on rules, and effectively respond to global challenges. Problems and challenges play their due role," the official said.