EU keen to work with Donald Trump on China’s ‘non-market policies’: trade chief
In rare admission, senior official says bloc should be ‘ready to explore deeper EU-US cooperation on economic security’ vis-a-vis Beijing
At a hearing in the European Parliament, Maros Sefcovic, the trade and economic security commissioner, said the EU should be “ready to explore deeper EU-US cooperation on economic security, an area where both the EU and the US want to progress, including on how to deal with the joint challenges coming from China’s non-market policies and practices”.
In private, however, the coordination is something Brussels officials have been eyeing for months, as they put together a package of carrots and sticks designed to stave off the worst of the American president’s trade threats.
Sefcovic outlined a litany of Europeans’ issues with Beijing’s trade practices, referring to “the overcapacities driven by illegal state subsidies” and asserting “we would not accept the situation where Chinese jobs are protected at the expense of Europeans”.
