WTO to rule on China's complaint on U.S. duties on solar cells

[August 15, 2019]  GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization (WTO) set up a dispute panel requested on Thursday by China to rule on U.S. safeguard duties imposed on imports of solar cells, a Geneva trade official said.

The decision, automatic upon its second request at a meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), came as the two countries seek a major trade deal to calm simmering tensions.

China charges that the U.S. measure, in the form of a tariff-rate quota on imports of solar cells and an increase in duties on imports of modules, violates WTO rules.

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by John Stonestreet)

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