The creation of the first panel relates to Chinese anti-dumping duties on X-ray security inspection equipment from the European Union. Following an investigation, China decided to impose anti-dumping duties ranging from 33.5% to 71.8% on imports of x-ray security inspection equipment from the EU from January 23, 2011 for a period of five years.

In a preliminary response to the EU's second panel request on the matter, China said it believed that relevant measures at issue were fully consistent with the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement. China added that both the anti-dumping investigation and measures were based on solid facts and evidence.

The second panel relates to a request brought by the United States to examine China's anti-dumping and countervailing measures on US chicken broiler products.

The United States said that China’s dumping and subsidy determinations appeared to be inconsistent with China’s obligations under the Anti-dumping Agreement. The US added that its concerns related to every phase of China’s investigation.

In September 2011, the US government said these duties were doing significant damage to its domestic industry. It said that before the imposition of these duties, the United States was China’s largest chicken broiler products supplier with over 600,000 metric tons of broiler products exported in 2009. Since the duties have come into force, US exports to China are down 90%. Annual losses of USD1bn in sales to China are anticipated by US industry.

China has imposed anti-dumping duties ranging from 50.3% to 53.4% on US exporters of chicken products, and set an “all others” rate of 105.4%. In the countervailing duty investigation, China imposed countervailing duties of between 4% and 12.5% for the participating US producers and exporters and an “all others” rate of 30.3%.

The EU said that it would follow this proceeding very closely as a third party, since it has expressed similar concerns.

The creation of the third panel relates to Japan and the European Union's challenge to Canadian province Ottawa's Green Energy act, which provides concessionary treatment of providers of green energy products and services that meet local content requirements. To qualify for the concessionary treatment, solar projects must have at least 40% of their initial development contributed to by local producers or service providers, and wind energy 25%. Japan and the European Union agreed to merge their appeals.

The WTO, also adopted at its January 20, 2012 meeting the panel and Appellate Body reports which reviewed the Philippines’ tax regime on distilled spirits.