Trade tensions: EU vs China

贸易紧张:欧盟对华

World Business Report

2025-12-13

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Trade tensions rise as the EU investigates Chinese firms over possible unfair government subsidies. We hear from the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU who says they are being unfairly targeted. Plus, who will pay the new €3 tax on small parcels from China - businesses or consumers? Why are most household things still not being recycled? And sport fans in the US will soon be able to subscribe to a new YouTube TV package. [Photo: An attendant walks past EU and China flags in Beijing, China. Credit: REUTERS/Jason Lee]
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  • This is Andrew Peach on the way investigations into Chinese companies and tax on parcels will get the explanations and reaction.

  • Also today how YouTube is launching new subscriptions to watch live TV in the US and new computer vision technology which means more of our household waste can be recycled.

  • The EU is looking at whether government subsidies give some firms an unfair advantage.

  • It's carried out raids at Temu's European headquarters in Dublin and is investigating the Chinese security tech firm Nook Tech.

  • A Chinese business representative says the companies being targeted unfairly are all from China.

  • Ling Ling Lian is from the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU.

  • She told me a bit more about the impact that these investigations are having.

  • The FSR has had a very significant adverse impact on Chinese investment enterprises operating across Europe,

  • and according to a survey conducted by the CCCU this year with 205 Chinese enterprises and organisations,

  • they report that 63% of the surveyed enterprises reported that their business operations have been disrupted due to FSR enforcement actions.

  • And these disruptions include lots of commercial opportunities,

  • direct operational interferes, and heightened compliance risk.

  • And furthermore,

  • the China's Ministry of Commerce had estimated that FSR enforcement has resulted in direct and indirect losses amounting to to approximately 2.1 billion euros for Chinese enterprises.