Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce provided an update on its countervailing investigation on EU dairy products, identifying the European companies that would be part of the sample.

On October 8, China's Ministry of Commerce announced provisional anti-dumping measures against EU brandy. This is part of an ongoing trade remedy tit-for-tat between China and the European Union.

The Chinese government announced that it has filed a WTO complaint against Turkish tariffs on imported vehicles, while the EU said it has filed a WTO complaint against Chinese anti-dumping duties on brandy. The official documents have not been circulated by the WTO yet.

A new report from the European Commission on its trade defense instruments (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguards) documents its use of these measures against China, as well as the Chinese measures against the EU, in 2023.

Earlier this month, China's Ministry of Commerce announced the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation on halogenated butyl rubber from Canada, Japan and India.

As China-EU trade tensions intensify, with a number of trade remedy cases and WTO challenges to those cases taking place in both directions, the latest development is an EU challenge to China's anti-subsidy investigation on EU dairy products.

Today, China's Ministry of Commerce initiated an anti-dumping investigation on Canadian canola seeds, as part of its retaliation against Canada's tariffs on a number of Chinese goods.