Minister Wang Wentao Meets with European Commission Executive Vice President and Trade Commissioner Dombrovskis
On February 26, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with European Commission Executive Vice President and Trade Commissioner Dombrovskis in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The two sides exchanged views on the Thirteenth Ministerial Conference of the WTO (MC13), China-EU economic and trade relations, and economic and trade issues of respective concern. Li Chenggang, Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of China to the WTO, attended the meeting.
Wang Wentao said that China and the EU are both firm supporters of the multilateral trading system and should seize the window of opportunity of MC13 and work together to promote more pragmatic results in dispute settlement mechanism reform, fishery subsidies, investment facilitation, e-commerce and other aspects. China has actively implemented the consensus reached at the 24th China-EU Leaders’ Meeting and the 10th China-EU High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue, and has made substantial progress. China pays close attention to the trade remedy investigation initiated by the European side on Chinese electric vehicles and other products, and expresses strong dissatisfaction with this investigation that lacks factual basis.
Dombrovskis said that Europe and China are major economic and trade partners and important economies in the world, and have the responsibility to promote the success of MC13. Europe and China have good cooperation under the WTO framework, and the EU is willing to work with China to promote MC13 to achieve fruitful results. The EU attaches great importance to EU-China economic and trade relations, appreciates China’s active implementation of the consensus reached on the results of high-level exchanges between the two sides, and promotes good progress in promoting the concerns of European enterprises.