Overview
- China’s commerce ministry said the measures take effect Tuesday and cover products such as fresh and processed cheeses, blue cheeses, and certain milks and creams.
- The duties will be collected as provisional countervailing deposits at the border pending a final decision in the ongoing investigation.
- Investigators issued a preliminary finding that EU dairy products receive subsidies that cause material injury to China’s domestic industry.
- The European Commission rejected the conclusions as based on insufficient evidence, pledged to defend EU farmers and exporters, and noted it has brought the matter to the WTO.
- The step comes shortly after the EU’s decision to impose high tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and follows China’s December 17 move to finalize lower antidumping duties on EU pork.