The EU is moving forward with new rules on steel to protect the EU market from "global overcapacity," a move likely to exacerbate trade tensions with China in the process.

Last week, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič discussed a number of aspects of current EU-China trade tensions, which have become a bit more heated in recent weeks as the EU discusses a potential new instrument to address imbalances in its bilateral trade with China.

A new academic paper examines how China uses anti-dumping investigations as a retaliatory response to anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations it faces in other countries, focusing on the example of China's pork investigation in flipping Spain's vote in the EU electric vehicle case.

As part of an ongoing discussion in the EU on how to respond to economic harm from Chinese exports, a group of EU member states has published a paper that makes the case for a variety of new trade tools.

At a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods yesterday, China raised concerns about tariff modifications being undertaken by the EU (and the UK), as well as two new pieces of legislation under consideration in the EU.

Last week, Beijing issued a notice officially characterizing the cross-border aspects of the European Union's investigation in its Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) probe into Nuctech as an "unjust extraterritorial application of foreign law" and strictly prohibiting compliance with the European Commission's requests.

A proposed overhaul of the EU's cybersecurity rules could cost the European Union nearly €367.8 billion over five years if Chinese suppliers are forced out of key sectors, according to a joint report published by the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU (CCCEU) and KPMG.