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China removed the anti-dumping and countervailing duties of up to 220% that had shut Australian bottled wine out of its market since 2020, effective 29 March 2024; Australia's wine exports to China had been worth A$1.1 billion in 2019.

China made importers of European brandy, overwhelmingly French cognac, post deposits of 30.6% to 39% from 11 October 2024, days after the EU voted for tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

China set final anti-dumping duties of 27.7% to 34.9% on EU brandy for five years from 5 July 2025, but exempted cognac houses such as Hennessy, Martell and Rémy Martin that signed minimum-price undertakings.

China staged a military parade through Tiananmen Square to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War, with Xi Jinping reviewing the troops and Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un beside him on the rostrum.