They want to subject imports from China to the U.S. countervailingdutylaw, as well as to the most punitive calculation methodologies available under the U.S. antidumping law.
The United States also has a CountervailingDutylaw, which for 22 years up until 2007 had not been applied to imports from countries that, for purposes of the antidumping law, were deemed NMEs.