EV Tariffs Row Escalates as China Challenges EU Duties at WTO

China has filed a formal complaint at the World Trade Organization (WTO), challenging the European Union’s decision to impose provisional anti-subsidy tariffs on imports of China-made electric vehicles. The EU launched in October 2023 anti-subsidy investigations into EU imports of EVs from China to determine whether the value chains in China benefit from illegal subsidies.   In June, the European Commission “provisionally concluded that the battery electric vehicles (BEV) value chain in China benefits from unfair subsidization,…