EU’s trade defense caught in crossfire of urgency and procedural constraints

By Joanna Sopinska ( July 23, 2025, 08:16 GMT | Comment) -- The EU is under mounting pressure to protect European businesses from a rise in redirected cheap Chinese imports as a result of US President Trump's tariff war. Speeding up and simplifying the bloc's trade defense mechanisms seems to be the obvious solution. But the system is already under administrative strain, and experts are concerned that a faster or simpler regime could raise questions about fairness and may offer only limited protection for European companies anyway.The EU is under mounting pressure to protect European businesses from a rise in redirected cheap Chinese imports. But experts say speeding up and simplifying the bloc's process for investigating unfair imports might prove to be difficult because of procedural and capacity limitations. ...

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EU’s trade defense caught in crossfire of urgency and procedural constraints

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