An announcement on the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe stated that Beijing will end an anti-dumping inquiry into wine imports from the EU.

The ministry said in a statement that after six rounds of talks since November, Chinese and European wine industry groups signed a memorandum of understanding to “solve the dispute through cooperation”.

Under the deal, the European wine industry will provide a number of technical assistance packages to the Chinese side in areas such as grape growing, winemaking and marketing.

According to Chinese government figures, EU-made wines account­ed for 65.2 per cent of China’s total wine imports in 2012 and 15.6 per cent of the Chinese wine market.

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