The European Commission announced today that following an investigation into distortive foreign subsidies, Chinese state-owned rolling stock manufacturer CRRC is no longer part of a railway bid in Portugal.

At a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods in late November, for which the minutes were recently circulated, China raised a new concern with the EU's proposed steel tariff rate quota measure, and several previously raised measures were discussed as well.

In a potential escalation of regulatory friction, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has submitted a formal response to the European Commission's proposal to revise the Cybersecurity Act. Beijing argues that the EU’s pivot toward "non-technical risks'" is a veil for protectionism that

Last week, the European Parliament's International Trade Committee held a meeting on trade and investment relations with China.

China's Commerce Ministry (MOFCOM) on Thursday detailed a massive new state-led initiative titled "Export to China," aiming at balancing trade flows, while navigating a delicate relationship with the West.

As CTM reported recently, the European Parliament's International Trade Committee engaged with the authors of a study on industrial overcapacity that looked at China's practices and possible EU responses.

The European Union on Monday sanctioned two Chinese tech firms for cyberattacks that allegedly hacked tens of thousands of devices and critical infrastructure.