Global Times recently reported that China’s Ministry of Commerce just issued an announcement, preliminarily ruling that there is dumping in China of imported pork and pork by-products originating from the European Union, and decided to implement temporary anti-dumping tariffs ranging from 15.6 percent to 62.4 percent on pork originating from the EU from September, 10.
China is the world’s largest pork producer and consumer. Since 2007, the import volume of pork and pork by-products has been increasing steadily, and the growth rate has continued to expand. During this period, the EU has become China’s largest source of pork-related products. Chinese customs data show that between 2020 and 2023, the average annual proportion of pork-related products from the EU in China’s total imports has soared to 54 percent. China has always used trade remedy measures with caution and has only launched 38 investigations against the EU so far. However, the EU has launched a total of 263 investigations against China.
In the meantime, Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported that the Chinese move escalated a trade dispute between China and the EU sparked by EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. The Chinese investigation, launched last June and widely seen as a retaliatory measure against EU tariffs, has affected more than $2 billion worth of pork exports, with losses concentrated in major producing countries such as Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark. The levy marked a new chapter in trade and political friction between Brussels and Beijing.
Sources:
(1) Global Times, September 5, 2025
https://world.huanqiu.com/article/4OCc9Xrcj8u
(2) RFI, September 5, 2025
https://tinyurl.com/yds9nbhw