00:00Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has arrived in Beijing, the first stop of a trip to China
00:07which aims to strengthen the commercial relationship.
00:11Sanchez will be received by China's President Xi Jinping and will hold talks with the country's
00:16Prime Minister Li Tiang.
00:18He will fly to Shanghai on Monday evening, where he will open the Spain-China business
00:22meeting on Tuesday.
00:24Sanchez's trip to China comes at a tricky time for relations between the European Union
00:29and the world's second-largest economy.
00:32The EU imposed provisional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in July.
00:37The European Commission said that Chinese firms unfairly benefit from government subsidies
00:42allowing them to keep their prices artificially low.
00:46That prompted Beijing to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization.
00:51And China's Commerce Ministry said it had launched an anti-dumping investigation into
00:56imports of pork products from the EU.
00:59Spain is Europe's largest pork exporter and in 2023 supplied China with around 22 percent
01:05of its imported pork, trade that's worth 1.2 billion euros.
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