China Socked With Coated Paper Tariffs

The measures are part of a larger context that sees the Bush Administration putting its foot down against the widening trade deficit with China, which reached $232.5 billion in 2006.

The United States filed two complaints against China with the World Trade Organization: One seeks the lessening of restrictions on distribution of American music, film and literature in China. Another asks China to better police the trafficking of pirated U.S. materials that have been targets of counterfeiting. On the latter count, the U.S. government feels China has set “excessively high thresholds” for launching criminal prosecutions against the producers and distributors of purloined products.