Will Europe be overwhelmed by Chinese merchandise? | EUROtoday

Will Europe be overwhelmed by Chinese merchandise?
 | EUROtoday


LA risk is actual and Europe is aware of. While Donald Trump has simply launched an unprecedented commerce battle by imposing 125 % punitive customs duties on Chinese merchandise, Brussels now fears a dramatic domino impact: the large spill of Chinese industrial overcapacity on the European market. China is already very considerably in surplus with the European Union: 304 billion euros in 2024, in comparison with 100 billion euros ten years earlier. She is the primary importer of products in Europe with 21.3 %. She already floods the massive European ports, equivalent to Rotterdam, with containers full of packages of lower than 150 euros…

According to COFAFE information, the speed of use of commercial capability in China dropped to 74.9 % in second …


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