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中方就轮胎特保案要求与美方在WTO争端解决机制下进行磋商

2009-09-14 18:05 文章来源：商务部新闻办公室

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9月14日，中方就美方对中国输美轮胎产品采取的特殊保障措施要求与美方进行WTO争端解决项下的磋商。 　　商务部新闻发言人姚坚就此发表谈话指出，美方对中国输美轮胎采取特保措施，是违背WTO规则，滥用贸易救济措施的错误做法，中方要求与美方磋商，是行使WTO成员权利的正当举动，是维护自身利益的切实行动。中方希望各方能够体会到中方坚定反对贸易保护主义的决心，共同维护多边贸易体制，尊重多边贸易规则，共克时艰，推动全球经济尽快复苏。

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 2, 2009

NEWS CONFERENCE
BY PRESIDENT OBAMA

ExCel Center
London, United Kingdom

6:44 P.M. (Local)

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Earlier today, we finished a very productive summit that will be, I believe, a turning point in our pursuit of global economic recovery.

We've also rejected the protectionism that could deepen this crisis. History tells us that turning inward can help turn a downturn into a depression. And this cooperation between the world's leading economies signals our support for open markets, as does our multilateral commitment to trade finance that will grow our exports and create new jobs.

Q What concrete items that you got out of this G20 can you tell the American people back home who are hurting, the family struggling, seeing their retirement go down, or worrying about losing their job -- what happened here today that helps that family back home in the heartland?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, as I said before, we've got a global economy, and if we're taking actions in isolation in the United States, but those actions are contradicted overseas, then we're only going to be halfway effective -- maybe not even half.

You've seen, for example, a drastic decline in U.S. exports over the last several months. You look at a company like Caterpillar, in my home state of Illinois, which up until last year was doing extraordinarily well; in fact, export growth was what had sustained it even after the recession had begun. As a consequence of the world recession, as a consequence of the contagion from the financial markets debilitating the economies elsewhere, Caterpillar is now in very bad shape. So if we want to get Caterpillar back on its feet, if we want to get all those export companies back on their feet, so that they are hiring, putting people back to work, putting money in people's pockets, we've got to make sure that the global economy as a whole is successful.

And this document, which affirms the need for all countries to take fiscal responses that increase demand, that encourages the openness of markets, those are all going to be helpful in us being able to fix what ails the economy back home.