TAG: Dumping/Duties
Frustrated farmers slam EU ‘technocrats’ who ‘call the shots’ in Brussels protest
BRUSSELS — Benoît Laqueue was one of 100 disgruntled French farmers on a bus headed for the European...
8 months ago
UK considers probe of Chinese EV subsidies
LONDON — Britain is considering whether to investigate Chinese state subsidies for electric vehicle (EV) makers, two people familiar with the nascent plans told POLITICO.A U.K. investigation would follow the launch of a similar probe by the EU last Octobe...
6 months ago
EU glass fiber makers seek protection as China ramps up output in Egypt
The European Union has built a wall of duties against Chinese-made glass fiber, but a crack is widening. European producers of the lightweight material — used to strengthen plastics, and in wind turbine blades and vehicle components — say they need more p...
6 months ago
Intensive pig farming hogs scarce water in drought-hit Catalonia
BARCELONA — In the region of Osona, to the north of Barcelona, there are seven times as many pigs as people.Hectares of pig farms — long, barrack-like brick buildings with half-closed windows — stretch from the roadside into the distance. Metal cylinders...
6 months ago
Revealed — the next Brexit headache on the Irish border
LONDON — In 2019, Boris Johnson promised his Brexit deal would do away with checks on the Northern Irish border. Five years later, the region is about to be whacked with yet another trade headache.The latest tension comes from net zero rules, with the U.K...
6 months ago
Does the EU have what it takes to fight China on green tech?
The EU is getting increasingly trigger happy as it launches probe after probe into whether China is unfairly supporting its exporters and, in so doing, potentially killing off competitors based in the bloc’s single market — in sectors ranging from electri...
6 months ago
The MEPs who actually matter
This article is part of the Brussels Survival Guide.There’s plenty to pay attention to in the new cohort entering the European Parliament — including, of course, the people. See below our guide on key figures across the policy palette.Céline Imart AGRICUL...
2 months ago
Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage
LONDON — Early last year, U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer’s top green lieutenant traveled to Berlin. He was there to take notes on a German government full of climate vim. Starmer’s man Ed Miliband — then in opposition, now the U.K. energy secretary — enc...
2 months ago
Britain’s luxury carmakers fear Chinese trade war
LONDON — Britain’s big political parties all say they're worried about Chinese electric vehicles flooding the U.K. market. But the last thing high-end carmakers say they want is a trade war.One of the country’s leading luxury automakers fears it could bec...
2 months ago
Chinese electric vehicles face possible EU tariff hit
BRUSSELS — Chinese electric carmakers raced to get EVs into the bloc ahead of the July 5 deadline when new EU tariffs went into effect, betting they would not face backdated duties. But they may have miscalculated, with the European Commission saying that...
2 months ago
As the West slaps tariffs on Chinese cars, Britain ducks the fight
LONDON — While its allies slap steep tariffs on Chinese state-subsidized electric vehicles, Britain is sitting tight.The U.S., EU and Canada have put up barriers this summer after multiple probes found Beijing boosted its EV sector with billions in suppor...
1 month ago
Volkswagen is the anti-Tesla and China is to blame
In Volkswagen’s heyday at the turn of the decade, then-CEO Herbert Diess and Tesla chief Elon Musk had an unusual bromance, often heaping praise on one another’s automotive achievements.Diess hailed Tesla as the benchmark for success, while Musk went so f...
1 month ago
You could kill the EU, says France. No, you could, Germany replies.
Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz lead the EU’s two biggest economies, sharing a 280-mile border. But when it comes to protecting Europe from global threats, these neighbors may as well be on different planets.At an event in Berlin this week, the French pre...
1 week ago
EU countries overcome German resistance to back duties on Chinese EVs
BRUSSELS — European Union member countries did not oppose a proposal on Friday to impose duties on Made-in-China electric vehicles, as expected, overcoming a last-minute push by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop them.Ten countries voted in favor and...
1 week ago