
Beijing is responding to domestic industry complaints about sharply reduced prices for p-nitrotoluene from the EU.
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Increasing trade tensions between China and the EU are increasingly leading to anti-dumping measures.
Beijing. China has launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of the chemical intermediate p-nitrotoluene from the European Union. The Ministry of Commerce in Beijing announced this on Saturday.
The product is used in the production of dyes, medicines and pesticides. The investigation was initiated after a complaint from the domestic industry, it said. Preliminary research results showed that prices for EU imports fell by almost 60 percent between 2022 and 2025.
Trade tensions are increasing between China and the European Union. Both sides have recently increasingly resorted to anti-dumping measures and other trade defense instruments.

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