Escalating EU-China trade row over solar panels

On 5 November 2012, China filed a WTO complaint against the EU and specifically Greece and Italy, alleging that certain feed-in tariff programmes adopted to promote solar power generation are inconsistent with WTO rules, because they include local content requirements violating the GATT's national treatment principle. The EU lodged a similar WTO complaint against Canada which has been partly upheld according to a leaked interim report.

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