Memo: EU requests WTO consultations on Chinese treatment of foreign financial information providers

In its WTO accession agreement China committed to ensuring that its industry regulators were genuinely independent. In the financial information services sector the state regulator Xinhua also acts as a competitor for foreign companies. Moreover, these companies are being asked to operate through a branch of Xinhua itself, which would act as an intermediary. That is not a level playing field.

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