The ongoing trade conflict between the European Union (EU) and China over anti-subsidy tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) continues, as both sides remain at odds over the potential solutions and the impasse may be difficult to break.

Today, China's Ministry of Commerce published its preliminary ruling in the anti-dumping investigation on EU brandy, finding that dumping had occurred but deciding not to impose anti-dumping duties for the time being.

On August 21, China's Ministry of Commerce announced that it started a countervailing (anti-subsidy) investigation on EU dairy products, the latest move that could further escalate trade tensions between China and the EU.

Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce announced the sampled companies for the anti-dumping investigation on pork and related products from the European Union.

Today, the EU provided details on its previously announced provisional duties in its anti-subsidy investigation of Chinese battery electric vehicles (BEV).

The spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce said today that the agency is now reviewing a domestic petition for a trade barrier investigation on the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) investigations.

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.