{"id":150116,"date":"2026-08-21T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/150116\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:03:14","slug":"chinas-trade-grip-tightens-in-europe-as-clock-ticks-towards-october-deadline-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/150116\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s trade grip tightens in Europe as clock ticks towards October deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midway through a three-month negotiating period with Beijing, new data shows the trade balances of 24 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/european-union?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">European Union<\/a> member states are still moving in what Brussels considers to be the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China extended its trade surplus over all but three EU members in July compared to a year earlier, calculations based on new Chinese customs figures showed. In some instances, the monthly swing was dramatic.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s surplus with Sweden quadrupled, while for Malta it rose by 166.6 per cent. For Romania it expanded 94.4 per cent, and for Finland 93.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For the bloc\u2019s biggest economies, Germany\u2019s deficit shot up 86.5 per cent compared to July 2025, Poland\u2019s was up 31.9 per cent, the Netherlands rose 14.5 per cent, Spain by 12.4 per cent and France by 4.2 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Following a meeting between the sides\u2019 respective trade chiefs at the end of June, Brussels set a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3358808\/eu-sets-october-deadline-tangible-results-china-imbalances-after-key-trade-talks?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three-month deadline<\/a> for a rebalancing of trade <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-eu-relations?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ties<\/a>, amid fears that cheap Chinese imports are helping to deindustrialise swathes of the European manufacturing economy. After this point, it has pledged to take action to redress things.<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders debate new China trade policy over \u2018systemic threat\u2019<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While the bloc\u2019s officials are not entirely fixated on trade deficits, they have become a symbol of concerns about undeclared Chinese state subsidies and industrial overcapacities that have spilled over from spreadsheets to open geoeconomic rivalry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midway through a three-month negotiating period with Beijing, new data shows the trade balances of 24 European Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[173,211,210,49093,174,25035,22325,49466,73,234,10459,190,49097,11647,44626,58812],"class_list":["post-150116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-beijing","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-ceconomy","tag-china","tag-christine-lagarde","tag-european-central-bank","tag-european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-geneva","tag-germany","tag-jd-com","tag-malta","tag-nuctech","tag-wang-wentao"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117134583885963120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}