Chinese brandy tariffs -- seen as EV duty retaliation -- challenged by the EU at the WTO

The European Union on Monday announced it would challenge Chinese antidumping duties on European brandy imports at the World Trade Organization -- measures that are widely seen as retaliation from Beijing for the bloc’s duties on Chinese electric vehicles. “[T]he European Commission has formally requested consultations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the provisional anti-dumping measures imposed by China on imports of EU brandy,” the European Commission said in a statement . A request for consultations is the first...