EU reports China’s brandy-related measures to WTO

On October 8, according to reports from Agence France-Presse and the European version of “Politico EU”, the EU will file a strong complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against China’s decision to implement temporary anti-dumping measures on brandy imported from the EU.

The European Commission stated that China’s abuse of trade protection for inappropriate reasons clearly violates WTO rules. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced yesterday that it has initially determined that import-related brandy originating in the EU is dumped, and decided to implement temporary anti-dumping measures in the form of a deposit starting from October 11. The deposit ratio of each company is 30.6% to 39%. The Ministry of Commerce also revealed that it is studying measures such as increasing tariffs on imported large-displacement fuel vehicles.

According to reports on the European Commission website, spokesman Olof Gill reversed course in a statement. China’s legitimate trade measures were slandered as “abuse of trade protection,” claiming that they were “clear violations of WTO rules.” The EU will challenge the WTO “very seriously.” “Treat any EU economic sector’s “unfair use of trade defense tools”.

The statement also said that the European Commission will now carefully identify and evaluate all possibilities to “provide appropriate support to EU manufacturers facing negative impacts” and said that the EU “has the tools to deal with market instability or the threat of market instability for EU manufacturers”. harmful effects”.

Previously, the EU pushed forward the tariff proposal against China despite China’s opposition and passed the tax proposal in the vote on whether to impose countervailing duties on electric vehicles imported from China. EU media speculated that China’s anti-dumping of brandy was a retaliatory measure to increase taxes on EU electric vehicles. The Ministry of Commerce of China stated that the anti-dumping measures were legitimate trade remedy measures initiated in response to the domestic industry’s application to investigate and take in accordance with the law, and were fully in compliance with WTO rules.