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No appetite for EV competition with China in EU as bloc mulls over punitive tariffs
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The Shanghai auto show, where Chinese-made electric vehicles were front and centre, on April 19.
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LONDON – European Union trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis arrived in China amid escalating tensions between the two sides over Europe’s decision to launch an inquiry into Chinese electric car exports, with the claim that these were “distorting” the market.
But the 10th China-EU High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue scheduled to start in Beijing on Monday seems unlikely to avert a bigger showdown, since neither China – which has condemned the move as “a naked act of protectionism” – nor Europe seems willing to budge from their entrenched positions.
