Agriculture China announces "anti-dumping" duties on pork from the EU
In the trade conflict with the EU, China has announced that it will impose "anti-dumping" duties on pork from the EU from Wednesday. The duties on pork and its by-products are to amount to 4.9 to 19.8 percent for a period of five years.
16.12.2025, 11:00
SDA
The reason for this is that pork products from the EU have been "dumped", which has caused "considerable damage" to the Chinese industry, as the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing announced on Tuesday.
Dumping is generally understood to be when goods are sold on a foreign market at a price below their production costs. The EU also repeatedly accuses foreign companies of offering products on the European market at artificially low prices, for example because their production was subsidized with state money.
China had already announced provisional tariffs on European pork at the beginning of September - at that time still at a level of between 15.6 and 62.4 percent. The People's Republic, which is the largest buyer of pork from the EU, had previously launched an investigation into pork imports from the EU in June 2024. This was in response to the anti-dumping proceedings initiated by the EU regarding state subsidies for Chinese electric cars.
