Europe Tests Tariff-Free China Trade Strategy — SkimNews
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- Europe is developing a response to "China Shock 2.0," wagering that it can push back on Beijing's export juggernaut without resorting to President Trump's tariff-heavy playbook.
- China's industrial overcapacity is now being treated as a threat by more of the world — not just the U.S. — accelerating the search for non-tariff defenses among trading partners.
- The framing positions Europe as the first major Western bloc to confront Chinese overcapacity through industrial policy tools other than blanket tariffs, per the source.
Why it matters: Europe is charting a distinctly non-tariff path against Chinese overcapacity at a moment when more countries — not just the U.S. — are identifying Beijing's export surge as a threat to domestic industries, making the EU an early test case for whether alternatives to Washington's tariff playbook can hold up.
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