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

Beijing is moving to overhaul how local governments issue financial support, announcing a new “negative-list” approach to curb improper subsidies and eliminate internal trade barriers.

The EU's proposed Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) has triggered a sharp response from Beijing, which has accused Brussels of creating "serious investment barriers and systemic discrimination." China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) pointed specifically to the IAA's mandatory technology transfers, local content requirements,

The EU is moving forward with an industrial policy plan that uses discriminatory procurement policies to promote manufacturing in the EU, with Chinese producers and policies as the main target.

In recent filings with the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), several solar companies have presented their arguments that the Commerce Department erred by treating "transnational subsidies" from China as countervailable.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration issued long-awaited interim rules to block Chinese companies from accessing billions of dollars in U.S. clean energy tax credits, as part of the implementation of President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.