Press Release: Mandelson in China to discuss new High Level Trade Mechanism

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson will travel to China on 22 February, 2008, to begin a three day visit, where he will have his first meeting with the new Chinese Minister of Commerce Mr. Chen Deming. They will take forward the establishment of an EU-China High Level Economic and Trade Mechanism, which was agreed at the last EU-China Summit. This new group will bring together senior decision-makers from the Chinese leadership and their counterparts from the European Commission, to address issues that concern trade and the economy and that have a strategic dimension. Mandelson will also meet other key Chinese authorities and European businesses operating in China.