In a statement circulated to WTO members, the bloc said it was abandoning the case “considering the key objectives behind this dispute have been met and relevant trade has resumed”.
Soon after the office opened, Lithuanian exporters found they could no longer ship products to mainland China. The country’s details had been wiped from the official Chinese customs system, they said.
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Taiwanese supporters queue up to buy Lithuanian rum held up by mainland China
Taiwanese supporters queue up to buy Lithuanian rum held up by mainland China
Beijing always denied that there was any official boycott of Lithuanian goods, even as it downgraded diplomatic ties with Vilnius. At several junctures, it claimed that Chinese people just did not want to buy goods from the tiny Baltic country, which had made concerted efforts to grow ties with Taipei.
