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25/08/2026 - 15:11 GMT+2

A group of EU officials will travel to China in the coming days to advance trade talks, as Brussels seeks to narrow a record €1 billion-a-day trade deficit with Beijing, Euronews has learned.

The European Commission hopes the technical discussions will deliver “tangible” results by October, when EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is expected to travel to China.

However, talks launched by the Commission and Beijing in June have become strained in recent weeks after China barred companies from providing information to Brussels in investigations under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, the EU's rules aimed at preventing unfair subsidies from abroad.