China issues 2025 report on U.S. WTO compliance
China’s Ministry of Commerce on Friday released a report on the United States’ compliance with the World Trade Organization (WTO), expressing concerns over U.S. trade bullying practices and double-standard manipulations in industrial policy.
The 2025 Report on the WTO Compliance of the United States also expressed China’s concerns over U.S. practices that undermine the multilateral trading system and disrupt global industrial and supply chains, the ministry said.
Two previous versions of the report were released in 2023 and 2024.
The ministry said that over the past year, the United States has escalated its unilateral actions and frequently implemented discriminatory policies — particularly in its introduction of so-called reciprocal tariffs and in waging global trade wars — which have infringed upon the legitimate rights and interests of other countries.
The multilateral trading system with the WTO at its core is the cornerstone of economic globalization and international trade, the ministry said, adding that the WTO is a rules-based international organization that relies on its members to fully abide by their obligations while enjoying their rights, and on mutual supervision and cooperation among its members.
The ministry noted that the current multilateral trading system faces significant challenges. Through the release of the 2025 report, China urges the U.S. to promptly correct its erroneous practices, comply with WTO rules, fulfill its obligations as a WTO member and abandon non-compliance measures such as its “reciprocal tariffs” as soon as possible.
China hopes the report will also prompt the U.S. to work with other WTO members to advance the multilateral trading system toward playing a greater role in global economic governance, and to collectively commit to an equal, orderly multi-polar world and a universally beneficial, inclusive form of economic globalization.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
