China warns EU against ‘selective’ use of trade data to justify curbs

Updated 31 May 2026

China’s pushback shows this is widening into a political dispute over industrial order, not just import rules

• • China’s pushback shows this is widening into a political dispute over industrial order, not just import rules.
• • Capacity and infrastructure bottleneck.
• • EU warns EU against ‘selective’ use of trade data to justify curbs.
• • Capacity and infrastructure bottleneck is now remapping behaviour underneath the headline.