News and analysis on trade policy in Europe
Friday, April 25, 2025
The European Commission published this afternoon the definitive regulation enacting much-awaited electric vehicle countervailing duties after an investigation launched in October last year into subsidisation of the sector by the Chinese authorities. The duties will come into force as soon as tomorrow (30 October).
The European Commission is working on an increasing workload of trade defence cases, is eyeing the end of its 2018 steel safeguard and plans to continue to focus on circumvention of anti-dumping or countervailing duties.
European Commission director for trade defence Martin Lukas said his institution was ready to clinch a price deal with Chinese companies on their exports of electric cars even after definitive EU duties are enacted.
The alliance of European Union industries AEGIS Europe is calling on Brussels to step up its trade defensive action against China ahead of a coming leadership reshuffle following European Parliament elections.
The European Commission has announced the provisional levels of countervailing duties it will be levying on electric vehicles produced in China and signalled that it is ready to negotiate a “mutually agreed solution” with Beijing. The case is a snapshot in the subsidy and industrial battle the EU is waging …
The European Commission initiated a new anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese exports to the European Union of ‘mobile access equipment’ – in other words, articulated boom lifts, telescopic boom lifts, scissor lifts, vertical masts and sections of and related parts and components.
The high-profile anti-subsidy investigation against imports of electric vehicles from China launched by the EU last autumn is proceeding at pace. On Tuesday the European Commission said it would have car imports subject to registration, with a view to potentially imposing duties retroactively on the registered cars. Preliminary duties could …
As the current European Commission finishes its term in the coming months, a range of pending decisions in this will tell us what the new face of EU trade defence policy really is.
The European Commission has decided not to sample Tesla Shanghai, the largest exporter of electric vehicles from China to the EU, as part of its ongoing investigation into Beijing’s subsidies into the sector.
The countdown to likely countervailing duties on imports of electric vehicles from China has officially begun. The anti-subsidy investigation into imports of cars announced mid-September by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was published this morning in the European Union’s statute book.
