Beijing, May 18: Chinese trade officials have expressed alarm at the "abuse" of trade compensatory measures against Chinese goods by countries led by the United States and India, the state media reported. China remains the world's largest victim of the abuse of anti-dumping measures with 27 investigations having been started into its exports in the latter half of 2002, 'China Business Weekly' reported, quoting latest data from the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
"US and India led the number of trade compensatory measure cases against china," weekly said in its latest issue.
A total of 18 countries initiated 39 anti-dumping cases and 18 safeguard measures against China last year, it added.

China topped the list of anti-dumping cases accounting for half of the 30 probes initiated in 2002-03, the annual report of the directorate general of anti-dumping and allied duties under India's ministry of commerce said recently.
The large number of anti-dumping cases against Chinese goods are occurring because china's exports grew extraordinarily last year against the backdrop of gloomy world economic outlook, trade officials said.

However, officials say the number of investigations against Chinese products has started to fall in recent months, particularly in view of it's entry into the WTO that deterred foreign countries taking "discriminatory" measures.
The bureau, set up after china's entry into WTO in Dec 2001, has been helping domestic companies respond to foreign anti-dumping charges and refraining from vicious price competition in the international market.
Bureau Report