13 March 2017 / Applying a "divide and conquer" strategy, China has notified the WTO of its intention to proceed with a panel request only against the EU to be treated as a market economy in anti-dumping procedures, a treatment which would essentially render those measures useless to counteract dumped imports from China.

13 March 2017 / Opinion piece by Milan Nitzschke, spokesperson for AEGIS Europe.

8 March 2017 / Final figures from Eurostat show that the 2016 EU trade deficit with China remains severely unbalanced at almost €175 billion Euros.  The 2016 EU trade deficit with China is almost on par with the record high of 2015 which equates to around seven million containers that arrive fully loaded in Europe and go back to China empty.

8 March 2017 / “AEGIS Europe is shocked at the scale of the fraud, uncovered by the European Anti-Fraud Office OLAF, and committed by Chinese exporters who have deprived the EU of more than €5 billion Euros in lost revenue, as reported in the press* today”.

28 February 2017 / As the European Commission launches ‘EU Industry Day’ today with an agenda focussed on supporting European industry, AEGIS Europe called on policy-makers to develop an action plan that delivers industrial jobs and growth.

Brussels, Thursday 16 February 2017 – AEGIS Europe today added its support to the chorus of European industries, which have signed up to a “Joint Declaration for an ambitious EU industrial strategy,” sent to policy-makers across Europe.

On Monday 23 January a technical briefing for MEPs on ‘EU-CHINA TRADE RELATIONS AND POSSIBLE CHANGES TO THE EU ANTI-DUMPING RULES?‘ has been organised by AEGIS Europe at the European Parliament. The briefing has been co-hosted by MEPs Mosca (S&D, IT), Lambsdorff (ALDE, DE), and Proust (EPP, FR).

AEGIS Europe wishes all of you a wonderful New Year!

Attorney Robert Lighthizer to be appointed US trade representative.

Brussels, 19 December 2016 - Manufacturers for Trade Enforcement - a coalition of leading U.S. industry groups opposed to the automatic granting of market economy status for China at the end of 2016 - explains in a  video what's the issue of China MES: "China's Market Economy Status Debate, Explained". The video was published last May.

9 December 2016 / The anti-dumping instruments used by the EU and other major WTO trading partners, such as the United States and Japan, will remain unchanged after a minor element in a single section of China's WTO Accession Protocol expires on 11 December 2016. This reality stands in stark contrast with China’s claim that the way other WTO members should treat it in anti-dumping investigations must change dramatically as of that date.

Inès Van Lierde, Chair of AEGIS Europe, has been interviewed by international news TV channel France 24 on Chinese dumping and China Market Economy Status.

9 November 2016 / Following today’s publication of the European Commission’s changes to the EU anti-dumping legislation - designed to render China’s demand for Market Economy Status ‘irrelevant’ - Europe’s manufacturing industries have reacted with a firm warning that the proposal is neither robust nor future-proof.

27 October 2016 / AEGIS Europe, Committee of Regions, IndustriAll,  European Trade Union, the European Trade Union Confederation, the Workers' Group and Employers' Group of the European Economic and Social Committee, and 33 Members of the European Parliament today sent a letter calling on the European Commission to effectively defend EU producers against unfairly dumped Chinese exports.
 

27 October 2016 / Industry, Trade Associations, and EU Institutions representatives send a letter to EU Commission to ask for protection from Chinese dumping

18 October 2016 / "The existence of a robust EU trade defence system is fundamental to the future of industrial manufacturing in Europe, one which is losing production and jobs to China every day." AEGIS Europe responds to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council and the Council: ‘Towards a robust trade policy for the EU in the interest of jobs and growth’

14 October 2016 / Representatives of industry and employers´ federations from Central and Eastern European (CEE) states - Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia - issued a joint declaration on MES China.

2 September 2016 / Ahead of the G20 Summit in China on 4-5 September, AEGIS Europe calls on G20 leaders to take a stand against Chinese state-induced overcapacities and overproduction. Leaders must support the use of legally robust trade defence instruments that effectively address flagrant and recurrent dumping by Chinese producers across many sectors in global markets.

12 August 2016 / This is the English translation of Italian News agency ANSA's article on the consequences on EU-US relations of the ambiguous EU position on trade with China.