Beijing vows to act over US dumping probe

China will take necessary measures to ensure Chinese aluminum companies' legal rights, the Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday after the United States government launched its first self-initiated, anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases in 25 years.

The ministry's announcement came after the US Commerce Department launched the investigations on Tuesday covering more than $600 million worth of imports of common alloy aluminum sheet from China.

Wang Hejun, head of the trade remedy and investigation bureau at the Ministry of Commerce, said such anti-dumping duty investigations against the aluminum sheet that China exports are the first such actions initiated by the US Department of Commerce instead of a US industrial association in a quarter-century.