The European Union has decided to impose duties on electric vehicles (BEVs) coming from China. The European Commission’s proposal has received the “necessary support” from EU member states for adoption. This was communicated by the EU executive, after today’s vote in the Tdi (Trade Defense Instruments) committee, in which there was neither a qualified majority in favor of the proposal nor a qualified majority against it. In this case, according to the comitology procedure (the set of procedures that the Commission uses to implement EU law), the Commission can proceed autonomously, given that the act is de facto approved (to block it a qualified majority against it is needed, otherwise it passes).
The vote, according to the EU executive, “represents another step towards the conclusion of the Commission’s anti-subsidy investigation”. In parallel, the EU and China “continue to work hard to explore an alternative solution that should be fully compatible with the World Trade Organization, adequate to address the harmful subsidies found by the Commission’s investigation, monitorable and enforceable”. A Commission implementing regulationincluding the final conclusions of the investigation, must be published in the Official Journal of the EU by the end of the month. 10 member states, including Italy, voted in favor of the duties12 abstained and 5 voted against, including Germany.
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