At a Council on Foreign Relations event last week, EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis discussed a number of China trade issues, including the general EU approach to China trade relations, whether the EU is rethinking MFN, and future prospects for unilateral trade action against China.

Earlier this week, the European Commission issued a provisional determination in an anti-dumping investigation on certain alkyl phosphate esters from China, setting duty rates that range from 45.1% to 68.4%.

Today, officials from China's Ministry of Commerce discussed recent EU subsidy investigations against Chinese producers and an EU report on state-induced distortions in China's economy with their EU counterparts.

Today, the European Commission published an updated report on "significant state-induced distortions" in the Chinese economy, which provides a basis for replacing distorted Chinese prices and costs in a particular sector with prices and costs from a third country with undistorted market conditions, as part of an anti-dumping

Yesterday, the European Commission announced that it had imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate ("PET") from China, affirming the provisional duties it imposed last November.

Today, the European Commission announced two subsidies investigations of companies with ties to China, related to bids on a Romanian government solar project.

At a European Parliament hearing on Thursday, European Commission Executive Vice-President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis offered comments on a number of aspects of EU-China trade relations, including the trade deficit, Chinese industrial policies, the Ukraine war, and economic coercion.