China has imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties of up to 62 per cent on European pork in a move seen as retaliation for the EU’s tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports.
China’s commerce ministry said that after more than a year of investigation, “preliminary evidence indicates that imported pork and pork products from the EU are being dumped, causing substantial harm to the relevant domestic industry”. It announced temporary duties of between 15.6 per cent and 62.4 per cent.
When Beijing announced the investigation in June last year, the European agricultural industry said farmers in Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Belgium would be hit hardest.