欧盟对华光伏产品双反案是2013年中欧经贸关系中的一件大事。它于2012年9月立案,到2013年上半年进入白热化阶段,中欧双方围绕光伏案展开角力。中方试图通过谈判,达成价格承诺机制,避免被征收高额反倾销税,使中国光伏产业免于灭顶之灾。欧方则寄希望于通过光伏案向中方施压,逼中国进一步开放市场。最终,双方就价格承诺方案达成一致,促成中欧贸易史上最大的贸易争端的和解。与此同时,中欧双方正式启动中欧投资协定谈判,推动中欧经贸关系进一步发展。
The EU’s anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures imposed on China’s solar panel products carried special significance for China-EU economic and trade relationships. The EU’s investigation was launched in September 2012 and met firm protests from China. This case became white-hot in the first half of 2013. China had hoped to reach a price-undertaking solution through negotiations,in order to avoid being imposed with high anti-dumping tax which could be devastating for China’s PV industry. However,the EU wished to take the advantage of the Solar Panel case to press China to further open its market. At the end,the two sides successfully reached a deal on price-undertaking and solved appropriately the biggest trade dispute in the history of China-EU trade and economic relationships. At the same time,China and the EU announced officially the start of the negotiation on a China-EU investment agreement,which will promote the further development of the bilateral economic and trade relationships.