Greens’ Candidate to Succeed Merkel Urges Curbs on China Trade

Annalena Baerbock speaks at the party's election campaign launch in Hildesheim, Germany, on Aug. 9.Photographer: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg
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Annalena Baerbock, the Green Party’s candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor, wants to tighten German and European trade policy toward China and impose higher tariffs if her party joins the next government.

“We must pay attention to compliance with standards when there is dumping in other regions,” Baerbock told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper.