China probes European pork prices after EU hikes tariffs on its electric cars | CNN Business

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Beijing has launched an investigation into prices of pork from the European Union, targeting a major EU food export just days after Brussels hiked tariffs on electric vehicles from China.

The move risks escalating tension in one of the world’s biggest trading relationships and will heighten fears among EU exporters that Beijing could go after their goods to retaliate against the provisional EV tariffs.

China’s Ministry of Commerce said Monday that local agricultural producers had requested an anti-dumping investigation into pork and pig by-products from the EU and that a preliminary inspection had

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