Overview
- Measures take effect on 10 September, requiring bank guarantees at customs rather than immediate cash payments.
- Beijing says European suppliers sold pork and by-products at dumping prices that damaged China’s domestic industry.
- The decision is preliminary and can be adjusted or withdrawn before the probe concludes in December.
- Shipments from Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark face the greatest exposure in a market worth over €2 billion last year.
- The European Commission condemned the move as poorly evidenced and vowed to defend producers, as part of a broader dispute that has included tariffs on EU brandy and an extended dairy probe following EU duties on Chinese electric vehicles.