The EU has imposed fresh tariffs on Chinese EVs. It has good reason to worry about Chinese subsidies, but it is unclear that the tariffs are the right answer to Europe’s lagging competitiveness. Meetings of the EU’s Trade Defence Instruments Committee are rarely headline-grabbing affairs. But when representatives of the bloc’s 27 member-states convened in early October, a politically sensitive issue divided national capitals: tariffs on Chinese battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs).
Author: Anton Spisak, Associate Fellow, CER.
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