China imposes anti-dumping duties on European brandy as trade tensions rise

China connected Friday (July 4, 2025) imposed anti-dumping duties connected European brandy, astir notably cognac produced successful France, arsenic commercialized tensions betwixt Beijing and United States allies proceed to rise.

The tariffs, effectual connected Saturday, volition scope from 27.7% to 34.9%, China's Commerce Ministry said. They are to beryllium successful spot for 5 years and volition not beryllium applied retroactively.

The announcement came during a European sojourn by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi aimed astatine ironing retired commercialized differences. Mr. Wang was acceptable to sojourn Paris aft stops successful Brussels and Berlin.

The anti-dumping duties are the effect of a probe China launched past twelvemonth into European cognac, aft the European Union undertook a probe into Chinese electrical vehicles subsidies.

“The investigative authorization yet ruled that the dumping of related imported brandy from the EU has existed,” work a connection by China’s Commerce Ministry. “The home brandy manufacture faces a worldly menace of damage, and determination is simply a causal narration betwixt the dumping and the important harm threat.”

Besides cognac, China has besides launched investigations into European pork and dairy products. The brandy probe was the archetypal and targeted chiefly French makers of cognac and akin spirits specified arsenic Armagnac.

China initially announced provisional tariffs of 30.6% to 39% connected French cognac shaper Remy Martin and different European brandies aft a bulk of E.U. countries approved duties connected electrical vehicles made successful China.

Wang was acceptable to conscionable his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, aboriginal Friday successful Paris.

His European circuit comes up of a China-EU acme to beryllium focused connected commercialized aboriginal this period successful Beijing.