Seven members from the Parliamentary Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee will travel to Beijing and Shanghai together Engin Erogluthe head of his Chinese delegation.
They will meet officials, customs and port authorities, parliamentarians and companies, including Shein, Temu and ByteDance, companies that are all in the crosshairs of EU regulators.
Xi, Merz promised to strengthen the relationship between China and Germany
Xi, Merz promised to strengthen the relationship between China and Germany
“We want to send a message that it is very important that the domestic market is not filled with discarded or excessive products from China, and that our rules on product standards should be followed, regarding the huge e-commerce tsunami that is coming from China right now,” said Anna Cavazzini, IMCO chairperson leading the trip.
The visit opens the door to travel by Members of Parliament (MEPs) to China, which was suspended for many years under the crisis of the pandemic and restrictions on human rights.
The IMCO committee’s trip will be followed at the end of May by an official delegation of the Chinese parliament, led by Eroglu, which will travel to Beijing and possibly Wuhan for another round of talks with the National People’s Congress (NPC).
The European Parliament and the NPC clashed over thorny issues such as Russia and Taiwan during their first official talks in seven years in Brussels in October.
