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22:17, July 24, 2007 |
The visiting EU Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kuneva voiced the hope on Tuesday to strengthen partnership with China to secure the safety of Chinese produced consumer goods exported to European market.
"We have agreed to intensify our cooperation on consumer goods safety especially enforcing a rapid alert system between the EU and China,"said Kuneva when giving a briefing to reporters after meeting with Chinese quality control officials.
"We want to solve problems together," Kuneva said. "It is in China and the European Union''s mutual interest to boost consumer confidence in the market."
The China-EU trade volume rose 25.3 percent to hit 272.3 billion U.S. dollars last year, with consumer goods as an important part.
According to EU figures, EU''s imports from China was 135.6 billion euros in 2006. China has replaced the United States to become EU''s largest import market.
However, an EU report said last year nearly half of the reported unsafe products originated from China. A large proportion of these products were toys and electrical appliances.
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