{"id":658782,"date":"2026-06-26T05:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:31:16","slug":"chinese-firms-brace-for-new-eu-rules-as-trade-deficit-tops-1bn-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658782\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firms brace for new EU rules as trade deficit tops $1bn a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/trade\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Bloc leaders ready diversification tool but still split on how hard to push Beijing<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260520 China EU\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">CATL&#8217;s battery factory in Debrecen, Hungary, topped a list of ongoing Chinese investments in Europe in 2025. (Nikkei montage\/Source photo\u00a0by Reuters)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">LONDON &#8212; Chinese companies are bracing for tougher regulations in the European Union after leaders agreed on the need to address the bloc&#8217;s trade deficit with China, which has ballooned to over 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade Bloc leaders ready diversification tool but still split on how hard to push Beijing CATL&#8217;s battery factory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64736,221162,84,23502,6905,29940,1294,4034,5668,1779,1781,27721,426,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-1bn","tag-brace","tag-business","tag-chinese","tag-day","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-eu","tag-firms","tag-new","tag-rules","tag-tops","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}