According to Reuters, on November 4, Maros SEFCOVIC, a candidate for the EU Trade Commissioner, said that any agreement reached by Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers on the minimum import price of electric vehicles needs to be as effective as implement.
Maros SEFCOVIC confirmed to the EU Parliament Committee that EU trading officials are negotiating in China. Maros SEFCOVIC said: “For the European Union, the very important point is that even if China and the European Union uses a price commitment to replace tariffs, it must be as effective and executable as the EU’s import tariffs. This is definitely the key for the European Union.” He also added: “The European Union is not interested in trade war. But the EU must also re -balance between bilateral relations with China in areas where their relationship is unfair.”
Maros SEFCOVIC is one of the 26 members nominated by Ursula Von Der Leyen, chairman of the European Commission, and will attend the hearing at the EU Parliament this week and next week. The new committee needs to be approved by the parliament to start work. Since 2009, Maros Sefcovic from Slovakia has been a member of the European Union and is responsible for over -field affairs.
On October 30, the European Union transferred the import tariffs on electric vehicles to produce electric vehicles to up to 45.3%, but the current China -Europe is still negotiating, hoping to reach a price commitment (that is, the minimum price commitment of imported cars) to avoid tariffs.
On November 4, the Ministry of Commerce of China also issued a statement saying that China has filed an appeal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the European Union’s final tariffs on electric vehicles produced by China to “maintain the development interests of the electric vehicle industry.” The Ministry of Commerce of China reiterated its strong opposition to the EU tariff measures and criticized the EU tariff as “trade protectionism”.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce of China said: “China believes that the European party’s anti -subsidy final ruling measures lack the facts and legal foundations, violating the rules of the WTO, is an abuse of trade relief measures, a trade protectionism of the name of the name of the counter -subsidy. We urge the European side to face our own mistakes, immediately correct the illegal practices, and jointly maintain the overall situation of the global electric vehicle industry chain supply chain and the overall situation of China and Europe. “