On December 10, 1997, China filed its first anti-dumping lawsuit against the dumping of newsprint in the country. The number of anti-dumping cases filed by China has been steadily increasing since then. Compared to 1997 when there was only one case filed, there were a total of five cases filed in 2001. Although in the year 2000, China was the country with the largest number of anti-dumping charges filed against it, it was also the country that filed the smallest number of such cases in the same year.
