The WTO's Committee on Government Procurement recently issued its report for 2025, noting with regard to China's accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement that China had announced this year "that it would not seek new special and differential treatment in current and future WTO

In a recently published official notice, the European Commission has set out more details of its investigation into a public procurement procedure in Lisbon that involves allegations of Chinese subsidies to one of the subcontractor companies in the bid.

The EU has opened a new Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) investigation involving a procurement bid in Portugal that includes a Chinese company. This type of investigation has already caused friction in the China-EU economic relationship.

China announced new restrictions on European Union medical device companies participating in its government procurement, a move Beijing described as a reciprocal response to similar measures adopted by the European Commission.

China's Ministry of Commerce denounced the recent measures restricting Chinese companies from participating in EU public procurement of medical devices, calling them "new protectionist barriers."

Last week, the European Commission took a formal step towards imposing restrictions on government procurement of Chinese medical devices, based on an investigation of what it found to be restrictions on procurement practices in the Chinese market.

The Chinese government has slammed the EU-proposed measures to restrict the market access of Chinese medical device producers in the EU as "discriminatory" and "unilateral." This marks a new front in the EU-China trade conflict, affecting an industry with approximately $20 billion annual trade.