CHINA has expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with the United States imposing anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese aluminum foil, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement yesterday.

“The United States has disregarded the WTO rules and seriously damaged the interests of China’s aluminum foil exporters. China is strongly dissatisfied with this,” said Wang Hejun, the head of the ministry’s Trade Remedy and Investigation Bureau.

The U.S. Commerce Department has made the wrong decision of levying high duties “without any evidence” and has “unreasonably and excessively” adopted trade remedy measures, which will affect its domestic employment and undermine the welfare of U.S. consumers, Wang added.

China will take necessary measures to protect its legal rights and interests in the U.S. wrongdoing, Wang added.

U.S. President Donald Trump is due to decide soon whether to impose much broader duties on steel and aluminum imports under a national security investigation amid mounting trade friction with China.

The U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday it would levy anti-dumping and countervailing duties on a number of Chinese firms, with dumping margins ranging from 48.64 percent to 106.09 percent and anti-subsidy rates of 17.14 percent to 80.97 percent.(SD-Agencies)