China’s Probes Into EU Pork, Brandy, and Dairy Are ‘Unwarranted’: EU Trade Chief Says

China’s anti-subsidies investigations into brandy, pork, and dairy shipped from the European Union (EU) are “unwarranted” and “lack sufficient evidence,” the bloc’s trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on Sept. 19. Dombrovskis conveyed this message during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Wentao, who visited Brussels in an effort to stop the imposition of extra tariffs on made-in-China electric vehicles (EVs). Dombrovskis described the meeting with Wang as constructive. “Both sides agreed to intensify efforts to find an effective, enforceable and [World Trade Organization] compatible solution” to the EV case “without prejudice to the EU investigation and its deadlines,” Dombrovskis said on X....