Abstract

Abstract
The Covid-19 epidemic and the war in Ukraine have brought into sharp focus the fragility of the international economy. Local companies have been protected by the EU through antidumping investigations and increased antidumping duties on imported goods. Can China-EU trade be affected by the EU's anti-dumping investigations?

In this study, the impact of EU anti-dumping investigations against China on trade between the EU and China will be evaluated. This study quotes and analyses data from the Ministry of Commerce, People’s Republic of China on the import and export of Chinese goods to the EU as well as data from the European Parliament on anti-dumping investigation quantities. It was found that although the EU regularly launches anti-dumping investigations on products produced in China, these investigations do not have a macroeconomic effect on trade between the EU and China. It is therefore reasonable to doubt the motive and purpose of the EU's anti-dumping investigations against Chinese products.