La Cina risponde all’UE con restrizioni alle esportazioni di Rheinmetall, altri – Le esportazioni di prodotti a duplice uso dalla Cina a 14 aziende saranno immediatamente vietate
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-24/china-hits-back-at-eu-with-export-curbs-that-ensnare-rheinmetall
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China slapped export controls on 14 European companies including German defense giant Rheinmetall AG, saying it acted in retaliation against the European Union’s sanctions on mainland and Hong Kong entities.
Exports of dual-use items from China to the 14 firms will be immediately banned, according to a notice from China’s Ministry of Commerce on Friday. It also prohibited transfers of such items by overseas entities to these companies. Approval for exports will be needed under special circumstances.
A spokesperson for the ministry said the action was in response to the 21st round of the EU’s sanctions on Russia, which targeted 14 Chinese mainland and Hong Kong entities. In a statement, the spokesperson branded the EU’s move as “outrageous.”
The tit-for-tat marks the latest flareup of tensions between China and Europe.
Brussels has accused China of trade practices that it says harm the bloc’s economy by generating huge imbalances in trade and hollowing out local industry. In its turn, Beijing has criticized the EU’s latest policies for restricting Chinese investment in some key sectors, condemning its proposed new Industrial Accelerator Act for being protectionist and violating World Trade Organization rules.
Still, even as tensions escalate, the two powers have set an October deadline to make progress on trade disagreements, as well as creating a joint platform to monitor trade flows.
Besides Rheinmetall, Beijing also took aim at European companies with a business presence in China. Lafert, owned by Japan’s Sumitomo Heavy Industries, is an industrial motor manufacturer that has a subsidiary in Suzhou. Garnet, an automation and robotics company, has a branch in China that supplies customable magnets.
The 14 companies hit by Beijing are:
– Lafert
– Garnet
– Sindlhauser Materials
– Rheinmetall
– Antraco Chemie-Handelsgesellschaft
– InPACT
– III-V Lab
– Cavok UAS
– Vigo Photonics
– Politechnika Wroclawska
– IHC Merwede Holding
– TATRA TRUCKS
– Opticoelectron Group
– Ekspla UAB
What a bloody stupid time to pick a fight with China now that US has stopped fighting with China to turn on the EU lmao.
This is gold.
Depending on Chinese suppliers was extremely dumb from the start. On the birghter side, better now than in the times of urgency
Trump, the inept, has no chance of winning against China.
So the Russians won’t be your oil bitches and China won’t be your manufacturing ones… y’all really know how to place your bets over there in Europe.
Good! The European Union should detach itself from China slowly and steadily, but fully. Chinese imports should have no place inside the Union
….so companies that were likely to have their exports to china scrutinized by the EU anyways ?
It’s very telling the sanctioned Chinese companies are logistics firms that are used to evade sanctions imposed on russia.
In other words China is butthurt their lucrative little illegal business is being targeted.
Fuck them.
This is a good thing. Haven’t Europeans been complaining that Chinese people sell too many things to Europe?
i am sceptical of those measures.
Russia gets western goods through intermediaries.
The Chinese who are in the business of selling those metals really really want to sell. Sure, you will need 2,3, 5 intermediaries, but it will happen, and no amount of chinese posturing can fix that
Fch China, the Russia lovers.
They are an enemy of us
But what you expect? rules that are fair in your mind are harmful for others, do you think that foreign country will obey and follow EU rules and oblige? maybe smile while doing it? 🤣 other countries simply fight back. EU is trying to outplay china and USA- most powerful global powers, having no military, no resources, economy situation that is a joke – but still tries to bite 🤣 EU is over 400 mln ppl market, but 200 mln of them is irrelevant – lidl is where they spend. So the rest of the market being over regulated in a hostile way is not attractive enough= soon even a simple
thing u buy in EU for 2 euro, in future it will be an eu product and will cost 10, and u will keep earning as u are now. All of you use us hardware , majority US software, all you pay 20% more for soft, 40-60% more for hardware, but who takes that money? EU- from who? from you and you pay, not Americans U- having no own tech it is rip of tactic, same as fine to china. So clap and rave snd be blind how poor you are becoming
Good for eu to diversify from the ccp.
Good, order books can be filled in Europe anyway.
Just inject China with Opium!!
What? You cant do that anymore?
How dare China stand up for itself?
It is OUTRAGEOUS!!!
Okay, on what dual use items?
It is nigh time we start treating China the way it has always treated foreign companies and countries.
So EU imposed sanctions on china companies and get pretty much the same back. It was expected.
Europe doesn’t need heavy industry. They should focus on high value services. If they need something they can buy it from China.. Oh, wait!
I remember reading a couple years ago about how the US first general issue quadrotor got immediately cut off from Chinese supplier. The only solution I’ve seen implanteded so far is stockpiling which I’m sure China also loves
China is the enemy, right lads?
Good i support EU’s independence for manufactured products. 100% should be made in EU by EU people. Of course the same product with lower quality will be 20 times more expensive but i dont care as i dont live in EU