Sino-European trade is struggling in the euro crisis

On February 3, the Fair Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce issued a report saying that there were 7 new cases of EU trade remedy investigations against China in 2009, accounting for 58% of the EU's new global cases in 2009. China is still a large EU trade remedy investigation. Target country. The newer statistics also show that the number of EU notification products to China has steadily increased. From 2006 to 2009, the European Union RAPEX (Non-Food Rapid Alert System) issued 5,502 notifications on consumer products with serious dangers in the EU market, including 2,964 cases involving China (excluding notifications to Hong Kong and Taiwan). Compared with 53.9%, toys, electrical appliances, apparel products and lighting equipment have become the focus of EU notification to China.

In response to China-EU relations, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said at a press conference during the "two sessions" this year that China and the EU have achieved a lot of cooperation in various pragmatic cooperation areas. Now the EU has become China's larger trading partner. Last year, the bilateral trade volume reached 3,600. With more than one hundred million dollars, there is no friction in the relationship between the two sides. However, on the whole, China-EU trade is still moving forward in friction, otherwise there will be no high trade volume of 360 billion US dollars.

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, China-EU trade development has been known for its stability and speed. The annual trade volume between China and Europe has reached 30%. The EU has always been China's second largest trading partner. After the EU expanded to 25 countries in May 2004, the EU surpassed Japan and the United States to become China's top trading partners and the fourth largest source of foreign investment.

Central Europe is like a couple who are in the honeymoon but also fight. In 2003, the international market was short of coke shortages and prices soared. Many EU steel producers were hit hard, and EU member states and related industries were putting pressure on the EU. In order to transfer the contradiction, the EU said that China's implementation of coke export quota measures is the main reason for the shortage of coke and higher prices, and pressured the Chinese side, saying that if the two sides can not reach any agreement, they will report China's quota behavior to the WTO. Although the results of the negotiations have been full of twists and turns, although many people have speculated that China and the EU may be "noisy", but in the end it has become an agreement that both sides are satisfied. As a result of the negotiations, the two sides have established relatively mature channels of consultation and dialogue. This agreement is regarded by the international community as a sign that China-EU trade relations are maturing.

Between 2005 and 2006, textile disputes and anti-dumping cases against leather shoes were two representative disputes, but Sino-European trade relations have been at a relatively friendly stage. Until 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was the rotating EU presidency, ignored China’s opposition to openly meet the Dalai Lama. This caused great anger at China and delayed the China-EU summit. The EU began to get nervous and feared that the impact of China would continue to “do business”. EU officials told the media that this is a pity that China is the basic partner of the EU.

The EU under the financial crisis in 2009 was also affected by the United States and faced many crises. Especially in the case of the United States taking the lead in trade protectionism against China, the EU has also begun to use the United States to conduct anti-dumping and countervailing investigations on Chinese goods frequently. This has caused many Chinese companies to get into trouble.