The EU Seems to Have Taken the Trump Admin’s Lead With China
Sounding much like the Trump administration, the Europeans are putting trade restraints on Beijing to force change.
Milton Ezrati
7/11/2025|Updated: 7/11/2025
Commentary
Europe has taken steps to slow imports of Chinese-made medical devices. Unlike the U.S. Trump administration, the European Union has not resorted to tariffs to achieve this end. Instead, it has simply barred Chinese products from certain sectors of the market. But similar to the U.S. approach, the goal is to pressure Beijing to change its unfair trade practices.
This most recent movement follows the recommendation of the EU’s International Procurement Instrument (IPI). Until further notice, the European Union will exclude Chinese-made products from government purchases of medical devices exceeding 5 million euros ($5.7 million). Successful bids will have to keep these products under half the total, with limited exceptions when there are no alternative suppliers. Since much medical and hospital spending in Europe is nationalized, these new rules effectively exclude Chinese companies from most of the European market for medical devices.
European authorities have explained these new measures as a response to China’s long-standing exclusion of EU-manufactured medical devices from its public procurement contracts. These European authorities note how Europe’s former openness had allowed Chinese exports of medical devices to EU economies to double between 2015 and 2023, while at the same time, Beijing has used “exclusionary” practices to deny some 87 percent of Chinese public procurement of medical devices to EU-manufactured products.
EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic has made clear that these new measures are not punitive. Instead, they aim to get China to change its long-standing protectionist practices, which he described as discriminatory. “We are committed to dialogue with China to resolve this issue,” he said.
Sefcovic has made clear that if Beijing addresses the IPI’s concerns, the EU will suspend or withdraw these measures. Though his style and tone are very different from U.S. President Donald Trump’s, the substance of what he says is very much the same.
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