China Tells Companies Not to Comply With EU’s Probe Into Nuctech

European regulators worry subsidies granted by Beijing may give the Chinese state-owned vendor an unfair edge over its European competitors.

An airport staff member check passengers' luggage passing through X-ray machine at the Terminal 3 of the Orly airport, in Orly on the outskirts of Paris, on June 22, 2020. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images

China has told companies within the country not to comply with the European Union’s anti-subsidy investigation into Nuctech, a major Chinese manufacturer of airport security equipment.

The regime’s Ministry of Justice said that, along with the Ministry of Commerce and other departments, it had determined the EU’s cross-border probe involving Nuctech constitutes “improper extraterritorial jurisdiction,” and violates China’s regulations, according to an online statement on May 15.