The US has expanded its challenge at the World Trade Organisation to China’s export restraints on raw materials to include export duties on chromium, as well as its export quotas on antimony, indium, magnesia, talc and tin, the US Trade Representative said on Tuesday.
Those raw materials “are key inputs into high-value US-made products in vital industrial sectors, including aerospace, automotive, construction, and electronics. China’s export restraints on these materials, including duties and quotas, provide an unfair competitive advantage to China at the expense of American workers and manufacturers,” the USTR said in a statement.
