CARBIS BAY, England, June 12 (Reuters) - G7 leaders have
reached consensus on the need for a shared approach to China
selling exports at unfairly low prices and to human rights
abuses, a senior official in the U.S. President Joe Biden's
administration said on Saturday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the
leaders of the Group of Seven world's largest advanced economies
had also agreed on the need to coordinate on supply chain
resilience to ensure democracies are supporting each other.
"I would say there was unanimity in terms of a willingness
to call out human rights abuses and violations of fundamental
freedoms that invoke our shared values," the official said.
"There was commitment to take action in response to what
we're seeing." The official said the G7 had moved far from three
years ago when the final communique made no mention of China.
Under the legal structure of the World Trade Organization,
the designation of China as a "non-market economy" allows its
trading partners, including the United States, to use a special
framework to determine whether China's exports are being sold at
unfairly low prices and, if that is found to be the case, to
apply additional anti-dumping duties.
(Reporting by Steve Holland, writing by Elizabeth Piper;
editing by William James)