Traduction de «Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures » (Anglais → Français) :

5. Regrets the existence of numerous tariff and non-tariff barriers to the Chinese market, such as certain forms of discrimination against foreign operators, particularly in the banking, insurance and telecommunications sectors, and the complexity of the tariff structure and technical barriers to trade, such as the lack of transparency in technical rules and conformity assessment procedures as well as in the Chinese Compulsory Certification System (CCC); regrets that China, contrary to the provisions of the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM), does not systematically give notification of specific subsidies;

Under the WTO’s Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM) - the legally binding international framework for regulating government subsidies - export credit support to private corporations is not considered a subsidy, if the support is done in compliance with this OECD Arrangement.

10. Calls for the EU to support the extension of the WTO trade policy review mechanism to cover the trade-related aspects of sustainable development, including compliance with core labour standards, and the amendment of the ‘Definition of a Subsidy’ in the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures with a view to ensuring compliance with core labour standards and respect for human rights in export-processing zones; calls also for the EU’s Geneva Delegation to revive and maintain the ‘friends of labour’ informal grouping it established to promote labour standards in the WTO;

6. Nothing in this Article shall prejudice or affect in any way the taking, by either Party, of anti-dumping or countervailing measures in accordance with Article VI of the GATT 1994, the Agreement on implementation of Article VI of the GATT 1994, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures or related internal legislation.

Annex 1A to the Agreement establishing the WTO (hereinafter referred to as the WTO Agreement), approved by Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community, as regards matters within its competence, of the agreements reached in the Uruguay Round multilateral negotiations (1986 to 1994) , contains, inter alia, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the GATT 1994), an Agreement on Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement on Agriculture), an Agreement on implementation of Article VI of the GATT 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the 1994 Anti-Dumping Agreement) and an Agreement o ...[+++]n Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (hereinafter referred to as the Subsidies Agreement).

If a Party determines that dumping and/or countervailable subsidisation is taking place in its trade with the other Party, it may take appropriate measures in accordance with the WTO Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the GATT 1994 and the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.