EU and China are discussing next sectors for trade talks after hybrid-vehicle pact

EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič told POLITICO that officials are discussing sectors for future talks with China while preparing to assess their October hybrid-vehicle pact in January 2027. POLITICO describes a voluntary cut in Chinese hybrid-vehicle exports to the EU to 350,000 units in 2027. Šefčovič separately named plastics as the closest candidate for potential EU safeguards, not as an agreed focus of the bilateral talks.