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China to investigate US car subsidies

Beijing is preparing to launch a trade probe into whether US carmakers are being unfairly subsidised, a move that comes at a time of heightened trade tensions between the two countries ...full story at Financial Times

from Financial Times on Thu, Oct 29 2009

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