{"id":17607,"date":"2025-04-13T22:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17607\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T22:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:09:21","slug":"eu-seeks-chinas-help-to-contain-trumps-trade-war-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17607\/","title":{"rendered":"EU seeks China\u2019s help to contain Trump\u2019s trade war \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seeking to address the problem, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke to Chinese Premier Li Qiang and discussed \u201csetting up a mechanism for tracking possible trade diversion and ensuring any developments are duly addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident\u00a0von der Leyen\u00a0emphasised China’s critical role in addressing possible trade diversion caused by tariffs, especially in sectors already affected by global overcapacity,\u201d the Commission said in a read-out of the call.<\/p>\n

The outreach to China came only a day after the EU\u2019s trade chief Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d announced a European task force to monitor diversions in Luxembourg, after meeting the bloc\u2019s 27 trade ministers.<\/p>\n

Should the diplomatic initiative with China fail, the EU would probably have to introduce \u201csafeguard measures,\u201d which are special duties intended block to sudden diverted trade flows.<\/p>\n

The EU and China have a prickly relationship over trade. Brussels has spent years calling out Beijing for resorting to heavily subsidizing its giant export industries like steel, aluminum,\u00a0electric cars<\/a>\u00a0and batteries.<\/p>\n

Still, faced with a common adversary in Washington, von der Leyen \u201cstressed the responsibility of Europe and China, as two of world\u2019s largest markets, to support a strong reformed trading system, free, fair and founded on a level playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seeking to address the problem, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke to Chinese Premier Li Qiang…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11783,1395,32,2000,8812,299,5187,11784,2441,479,49,1220,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-17607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-china-relations","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-level-playing-field","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-tariffs","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","20":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114332943331090034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}