According to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), trade disputes are common and they can arise when a government believes that another government has violated an agreement or commitment made in the WTO.
As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, the WTO has endeavored to end such disputes and out of 500 brought since 1995, 350 rulings have been issued.
As of April 2018, China was involved in 55 cases, both as complainant and as respondent:
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It has the most of them with the United States where 55 were brought against it while it was the complainant in 10 cases. It had the second-highest number of disputes with the EU (13) while it had 4 with Mexico, all of which were brought against it.
As of April of this year, the WTO says that the United States was involved in 253 cases, both as complainant and as respondent:
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52 of the trade disputes with the European Union – it brought 33 of those while 19 were brought against it. There were 32 disputes in total involving trade with China while with Canada, there were 26, most of which were brought by the U.S
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