Last year, the EU launched 12 anti-subsidy or anti-dumping investigationstowards a third country.
The ambition of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, both in her current and future terms, is above all to make the Old Continent competitive again in the global Sino-American competition. At the same time, the EU is taking action to eliminate potential disparities in certain economic sectors resulting from unfair practices (according to EU authorities) by third countries. Officials refrain from describing their actions as protectionist. They prefer to speak of “trade defense measures”. According to a European Commission report released this week, the EU initiated twice as many anti-dumping and anti-subsidy procedures in 2023 as in 2022.
Exceptions from China
