China presses France to drop ‘protectionist’ anti-fast fashion law

China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) said on Thursday it had held talks with French companies operating in China and reiterated calls for France to stop using its “anti-fast fashion law” to undermine the rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.

According to ministry spokesperson Huang Ling, public reports suggested some French companies had received subsidies from the European Union and its member states, and that this support might have been “partly passed through to their Chinese-based...