China's trade ministry and the European Commission have agreed to start consultations on the EU anti-subsidy investigation of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), after China criticized the EU's practices during the investigation and warned of a trade war.

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has criticized the European Commission for requesting an "unprecedented" amount of proprietary information during the anti-subsidy investigation of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).

Australia and China have announced an agreement on the reasonable period of time for Australia to implement the recommendations and rulings in the Australia — AD/CVD on Certain Products (China) (DS603) WTO dispute.

The European Commission announced today that it had "provisionally concluded that the battery electric vehicles (BEV) value chain in China benefits from unfair subsidisation, which is causing a threat of economic injury to EU BEV producers," and made a preliminary determination on duty rates of up to 38%

With a focus on the European Commission's anti-subsidy investigation of Chinese EVs, Bernd Lange, the Chairman of the Trade Committee in the European Parliament, has written a piece entitled "Avoid escalation of the EU-China trade dispute."

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its preliminary affirmative determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of certain glass wine bottles from China.

Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department initiated anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations on silicon photovoltaic cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a focus on Chinese-headquartered companies that are producing in those countries.