Pedro Sanchez arrives in Beijing as EU-China tariffs rift rumbles on

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The EU imposed provisional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles with the European Commission maintaining that Chinese firms unfairly benefit from government subsidies, allowing them to keep their prices artificially low.

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00:00Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has arrived in Beijing, the first stop of a trip to China

00:07which aims to strengthen the commercial relationship.

00:11Sanchez will be received by China's President Xi Jinping and will hold talks with the country's

00:16Prime Minister Li Tiang.

00:18He will fly to Shanghai on Monday evening, where he will open the Spain-China business

00:22meeting on Tuesday.

00:24Sanchez's trip to China comes at a tricky time for relations between the European Union

00:29and the world's second-largest economy.

00:32The EU imposed provisional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in July.

00:37The European Commission said that Chinese firms unfairly benefit from government subsidies

00:42allowing them to keep their prices artificially low.

00:46That prompted Beijing to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization.

00:51And China's Commerce Ministry said it had launched an anti-dumping investigation into

00:56imports of pork products from the EU.

00:59Spain is Europe's largest pork exporter and in 2023 supplied China with around 22 percent

01:05of its imported pork, trade that's worth 1.2 billion euros.

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