{"id":349671,"date":"2025-12-16T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349671\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:10:09","slug":"china-puts-anti-dumping-tariff-of-up-to-19-8-on-imports-of-pork-from-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349671\/","title":{"rendered":"China puts anti-dumping tariff of up to 19.8% on imports of pork from the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">China will impose tariffs of up to 19.8% on pork imports from the European Union, a drastic drop from preliminary tariffs of up to 62.4%, its Commerce Ministry said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">The ministry&#8217;s announcement followed an investigation the Chinese side launched into imports of pork from the trading bloc after the EU imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/european-union-electric-vehicles-tariffs-china-b56ef6eff5e8970bf3a9d3304fbdbaa5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:provisional tariffs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">provisional tariffs<\/a> on China-made electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Beijing also levied anti-dumping duties on European brandy, most notably <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-china-cognac-dispute-77503ed6be361a780b4f44435d3aa7c7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:cognac produced in France;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">cognac produced in France<\/a>, though major brandy producers received exemptions. Imports of dairy products from the EU likewise were subject to anti-dumping probes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">The EU runs a massive trade deficit with China: over 300 billion euros ($348 billion) last year. However, the trading bloc is a major exporter of pork and key supplier of byproducts such as ears, snouts, feet and other items considered to be delicacies in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">In September, China ordered preliminary anti-dumping duties, in the form of security deposits, of 15.6% to 32.7% for pork imports from EU companies that collaborated with the anti-dumping investigation, and up to 62.4% for all others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">China\u2019s Commerce Ministry concluded that the EU was dumping pork and pig by-products in China, selling them at prices below production costs or domestic market prices, and harming China\u2019s pork industry. The final tariff rates of 4.9%-19.8% are due to take effect beginning Wednesday and last for five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark will be the most affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">The Commerce Ministry said the new tariff will apply to all kind of pork products, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, pickled, smoked or salted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">It said it had reached its conclusions in an \u201cobjective, fair and impartial manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">EU exports of pork products to China peaked at 7.4 billion euros ($7.9 billion) in 2020 when Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/a91a1792b8a54bbc8b8489ec13436015\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:turned to imports to meet domestic demand;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">turned to imports to meet domestic demand<\/a> after its pig farms were devastated by a swine disease. But it has reduced imports as it has rebuilt its herds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Elaine Kurtenbach, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China will impose tariffs of up to 19.8% on pork imports from the European Union, a drastic drop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[152002,45,49,48,95,30115,46,6816,152003,152001,152000],"class_list":{"0":"post-349671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-anti-dumping-investigation","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-commerce-ministry","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-pork-industry","17":"tag-pork-products","18":"tag-trading-bloc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}