{"id":23607,"date":"2026-04-27T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/23607\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:33:08","slug":"beijing-eu-act-poses-serious-investment-barriers-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/23607\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing: EU Act poses serious investment barriers, discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">BEIJING &#8211; China&#8217;s Ministry of Commerce said Monday that the European Union (EU)&#8217;s Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) poses serious investment barriers and constitutes institutional discrimination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A ministry spokesperson said the Act imposes multiple restrictive requirements on foreign investment in four strategic emerging industries &#8212; batteries, electric vehicles, photovoltaics and critical raw materials &#8212; and includes exclusionary EU origin clauses in public procurement and public support policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">ALSO READ: <a href=\"\">Beijing opposes EU&#8217;s Russia-related sanctions targeting Chinese firms<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The ministry has formally submitted comments to the European Commission, expressing China&#8217;s position and serious concerns over the legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the comments, China argued that the legislation is suspected of violating fundamental principles including most-favored-nation treatment and national treatment. It poses discrimination against Chinese investors, and will slow the EU&#8217;s green transition and undermine fair competition in the EU market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyhk.com\/hk\/article\/632531#China-places-EU-entities-on-export-control-list-2026-04-24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China places EU entities on export control list<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">China urged the EU to remove discriminatory requirements against foreign investors, local content requirements, mandatory intellectual property and technology transfer requirements, and public procurement restrictions from the legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The spokesperson said that China will closely monitor the legislative process and is willing to engage in dialogue with the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">However, if the EU disregards China&#8217;s comments and pushes ahead with enacting the legislation, causing damage to Chinese companies&#8217; interests, China will take countermeasures to firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, the spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING &#8211; China&#8217;s Ministry of Commerce said Monday that the European Union (EU)&#8217;s Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) poses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2385],"tags":[81,13795,16350,256,16351,6496],"class_list":{"0":"post-23607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-european-commission","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-discrimination","10":"tag-eu-act","11":"tag-european-commission","12":"tag-investment-barriers","13":"tag-ministry-of-commerce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}