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On 26 March 2014, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) circulated a report on the dispute about China’s rules on the exports of rare earths. The dispute had been initiated by complaints from the EU and Japan, with another 16 countries participating as third parties in the proceedings. In the report, a WTO dispute settlement panel concluded that Beijing had breached international trade rules by applying restrictions on its exports of various forms of rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum. Rare earths ...

China was able to resist to the global economic downturn in 2012, continuing its unprecedented growth at a pace only slightly lower than that registered in before the crisis. China adopted stimulus measures to sustain its economy during the recession, but these also faced some setbacks. While Inflation has been kept at bay, the risk of a real estate bubble and of a general overheating of the economy remains a matter of concern for the new government, in place only since March 2013. Despite some ...

This report examines the impact of the WTO dispute settlement system on the CAP. Other WTO Agreements (in particular the agreement on agriculture, the agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and the agreement on technical barriers to trade) have more direct impact on the CAP. These agreements have set out the Community's main negotiated commitments in this sector. The dispute settlement procedure merely interprets and clarifies these commitments and their implementation ...