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Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 22
EU's Sefcovic to Meet China's Wang on June 29 as Trade Imbalance Widens
Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 22

EU's Sefcovic to Meet China's Wang on June 29 as Trade Imbalance Widens

3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 22

Summary

  • Next Monday, EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic will host Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Brussels for talks centered on the bloc’s widening trade imbalance with China.
  • The meeting signals a fresh EU push for Beijing to address strains in one of Europe’s biggest economic relationships, with the trade gap now the main focus of the bilateral agenda.
  • Brussels set the meeting through the European Commission, whose spokesperson Olof Gill confirmed the talks as the EU steps up engagement with China on trade tensions.

Insights

As China's state-backed industries surge, is a full-scale EU-China trade war now inevitable?
With China already bypassing tariffs, are the EU's new trade defenses being built to fail?
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