美国法律关税追溯规定加剧中美轮胎争端_时事

美国法律关税追溯规定加剧中美轮胎争端

Importers and Chinese producers, supported in some cases by the Chinese government, are arguing that Congress can't rewrite history.

美国进口商和中国生产商（有些生产商受到了中国政府的支持）目前坚持认为，美国国会不能改写历史。

'We think this case should be shocking to everyone,' says Bryan Ganz, the former head of GPX International Tire Corp. The defunct family-owned U.S. business was hit with the tariffs and prevailed in the appeals court decision.

美国轮胎企业GPX International Tire Corp.的前负责人甘兹(Bryan Ganz)说，我们认为此案会令所有人感到震惊。这个现已倒闭的家族式企业当时受到关税一事的冲击，并且在那家上诉法院的裁决中胜诉。

'Once Congress retroactively changed the law, the whole complexion of this case changed,' says Mr. Ganz.

甘兹说，一旦美国国会修改了法律，溯及既往，这个案子的情况就完全变了。

Mr. Ganz says he has run out of money to fund his case. His law firm, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, is using funds from other clients including the Chinese government to challenge the constitutionality of the law's retroactive application before the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York, according to a lawyer at the firm.

甘兹说，他已经没钱继续打官司了。美国可达事律师事务所(Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP)的一位律师表示，该律所目前使用的是其他当事人（包括中国政府）提供的资金在位于纽约的美国国际贸易法庭(U.S. Court of International Trade)打官司，挑战这一法案追溯行为的合宪性。代理甘兹诉讼的也是这家律所。