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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's Ministry of Commerce issued six notices on 9 October 2025 extending export controls to rare-earth technology, equipment and, for the first time, foreign-made goods containing 0.1% or more of Chinese-origin material.

China's 2026 car trade-in scheme, effective 1 January, pays 12% of the new car price up to RMB 20,000 for scrapping an old car for an NEV, replacing flat payments and cutting support for cheaper models.

From 1 January 2026 exporters of pure electric passenger vehicles from China need an export licence, a system announced jointly by four ministries on 26 September 2025 to tighten oversight of EV shipments.

MOFCOM, MIIT and SAMR published guidelines on 1 September 2026 telling Chinese automakers to avoid disorderly pricing, follow data and antitrust rules and strengthen compliance in overseas markets.

After talks in Beijing on 8-9 October 2026, the EU and China reached an understanding that Sefcovic said will halve Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid exports to the bloc, leaving the EV tariff dispute open.