{"id":29213,"date":"2026-05-25T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/29213\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:42:22","slug":"major-eu-countries-push-for-tougher-china-policy-ahead-of-brussels-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/29213\/","title":{"rendered":"Major EU countries push for tougher China policy ahead of Brussels debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A paper signed by Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France and Lithuania days before a major China-focused debate in Brussels said the bloc must respond more aggressively to \u201csystemic and structural industrial overcapacity\u201d \u2013 phrases often taken as shorthand for Beijing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The intervention comes as the European Commission prepares for a China policy orientation debate on Friday designed to chart a new course in light of growing complaints from governments and industries about the economic pressure caused by Chinese competition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The paper \u2013 which has not been released publicly and which was first reported on by the Financial Times \u2013 calls for much more aggressive use of EU safeguard measures for sector-wide disruption, rather than product-by-product anti-dumping cases.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">These allow for tariffs or quotas to be imposed where import surges are seen to be harming local industry. They have been used sparingly in the past, notably to counter surges in Chinese steel and ferroalloys, which are products used in the steel industry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Netherlands \u2013 home to companies such as ASML \u2013 has been at the coalface of economic security issues with China and the US. Photo: ASML\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c3d79908-903e-43fc-89d1-5951e34671b9_a76e8432.jpg\" title=\"The Netherlands \u2013 home to companies such as ASML \u2013 has been at the coalface of economic security issues with China and the US. Photo: ASML\"\/>The Netherlands \u2013 home to companies such as ASML \u2013 has been at the coalface of economic security issues with China and the US. Photo: ASML<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The paper \u2013 seen by the South China Morning Post \u2013 floats the adoption of a new \u201cresilience tool\u201d, to be \u201cactivated when European supply sources are concentrated beyond a specified threshold\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A paper signed by Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France and Lithuania days before a major China-focused debate in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14692,3035,6765,335,194,2164,2296,4481,556,865,866,446,2938,14691,17],"class_list":["post-29213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-asml","tag-beijing","tag-brussels","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-european-commission","tag-european-council","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-italy","tag-lithuania","tag-netherlands","tag-nexperia","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}