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EU-China Trade Relations

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Guest Post: The EU-China Deal on Hybrid Vehicles Safeguards: A Win-Win Outcome? For Whom?

This is a guest post by trade lawyer Victor Crochet and law professor Weihuan Zhou Following months of escalating trade tensions, the EU and China reached an agreement on several points of contention during their second meeting on bilateral trade and investment on 8-9 October. One of the key

How Should the EU Get Tough with China? Unilateral Action vs. WTO Complaints

I've seen several recent calls for the EU to get tougher in its economic relations with China, along with arguments that it has been too slow to act against the Chinese economic threat.

Recent Calls in the EU To Address Chinese Currency Undervaluation

An important element of the piece by Sander Tordoir and Brad Setser that I talked about in my last post was their argument that the EU should address Chinese currency undervaluation.

Does The EU Need Its Own Section 301 To Counter China's Distortions?

Recently, economists Sander Tordoir and Brad Setser suggested that the EU may need its own version of Section 301 in order to "confront China’s systemic distortions beyond piecemeal trade defence."