The European Union said Friday it had started ministerial-level talks with China, where they are expected to discuss rows over solar panels and other products, as tensions between the two risk escalating into a trade war.
Gao Hucheng, China's Minister of Commerce, and EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht are in attendance at the annual meeting of the joint economic and trade commission, William Fingleton, spokesman for the EU side, said in an e-mail.
Chinese commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang told reporters this week that the talks would "seriously review what happened over the past year in bilateral trade relations and study how to resolve problems, including the dispute over photovoltaic (solar panel) trade".
EU Trade spokesman John Clancy said the solar panel issue would not be on the official agenda of the meeting, but De Gucht and Gao were expected to discuss it on the sidelines.
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