Trade defence measures increased by 40% between 2018 and 2023, according to the annual report on trade defence activities for the year 2023, published on Tuesday 24 September by the European Commission. These measures directly protected 500,000 jobs in 2023, according to the report.
182 measures were in place by the end of 2023, of which 156 were anti-dumping duties. Most of them target Chinese products or cases of circumvention of measures targeting China by other countries.
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