Piglets crowd a stall at a hog farm in Drahnsdorf, Germany, on April 28, 2016. Carsten Koall/Getty Images
China has intensified its trade clash with Europe by slapping anti-dumping duties of up to 62.4 percent on European Union pork, in a move widely seen as retaliation for Brussels’s tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).
The Chinese Commerce Ministry stated on Sept. 5 that it had reached a preliminary finding that EU pork and pig by-products are being dumped on the Chinese market, causing “material injury” to domestic producers. Provisional duties ranging from 15.6 percent to 62.4 percent will take effect on Sept. 10, with the investigation now extended to mid-December.
