CHINA has filed a complaint with the WTO over US tariffs on 22 Chinese products including solar panels and steel pipes.
"China firmly opposes the abuse of trade remedy measures and trade protectionism," China's Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.
Said US Trade Representative spokeswoman Nkenge Harmon: "China has determined without benefit of the facts that whatever the United States does will fall short of what China would like to see."
The US says the products, which account for US$7.3 billion of China's exports, are unfairly priced and "dumped" on the US market, reported Reuters. The complaint also covers wind towers, although the US is not set to decide on such tariffs.
The US Trade Representative's office said China is bringing the case prematurely to the WTO as the Commerce Department is working to address China's issues after a previous ruling by the organisation.
China won a similar case before the WTO in 2011 that included woven sacks, tyres and steel pipes. China filed the most recent complaint on the same day the WTO issued a confidential ruling on a case in which the US challenged the monopoly of UnionPay over Chinese electronic payments on behalf of US companies like Visa and MasterCard.
