EU to impose tariffs up to 45% on Chinese electric vehicles

https://www.luxtimes.lu/europeanunion/eu-to-impose-tariffs-up-to-45-on-chinese-electric-vehicles/22143088.html

28 Comments

  1. USA, EU, Japan, Brazil, India, I mean… the question is not where can’t, but where can Chinese dump their EVs tariff and restriction free?

    If Chinese EV companies, many of whom have vast lots of cars just sitting there losing value, are not just a massive dumping scheme to try to prey off weaker economies and brute force western markets, then I guess they’ll be running strong in 2026 and not 10 feet underwater.

    Which means that very intelligent people on reddit who are convinced Chinese are going to dominate this market should put their money where their mouths are and invest. You would be helping the Chinese EV companies remain strong and get a nice return on your investment when their stock goes to the moon, so y’know…. win-win. 🚀

  2. Please come dump those cars here in Australia China, hopefully brings prices down $60k is too much for a regular sedan. If they can do the byd Seal for $50k and the atto for $40k they will dominate.

  3. OriginalBid129 on

    Why not buy cheap chinese EVs and help climate change. I mean are the european and american manufacturers really ramping up? Will we be driving ICE vehicles just because we want to save a few thousand jobs that were going to mexico or Poland anyways?

  4. PalebloodPervert on

    Increasingly weird in our “free and open markets” that we now want to tax competition that’s making reliable and cheap cars.

    /s

  5. Full-Discussion3745 on

    These are our options

    Support our car industry like the Chinese with taxpayer money

    Impose tarrifs.

    Which option?

  6. That’s so stupid. China makes cheap electric cars. Europeans are poor. They also have a super ambitious electric car timeline. How does EU think they can reach that goal of electric traffic by 2030 with a combo of poor people and expensive cars?

  7. Perfect_Temporary_89 on

    Yeah why though if it’s affordable and reliable, I mean we have cars made by Suzuki 🥲one bump it’s done ✅

  8. I don’t know how to feel about these tariffs from either the US or EU. 

    I’m ok with tariffs against companies that steal intellectual property. I’m not ok with tariffs against companies to limit competition. 

  9. Yes let’s buy Chinese cars which can be controlled by the CCP. How can we trust these cars? I mean we can’t even allow TikTok in US

  10. From what I read, the European carmakers with good EV offerings do not want the tariffs. It is not clear where the focus of the tariff drivers are, other than trade unions and governments.

  11. But we still want to import those sweet, sweet batteries they make, because for some reason it’s still not cheap enough to buy them from heavily subsidised european factories.

    We are so fucked 🤷‍♂️

  12. LifeIsAnAdventure4 on

    Good. We have already given away way too much of our manufacturing to an adversary we can’t compete against due to their massive use of slave labor.

  13. But you can democratically elect new EU leadership right?

    Vote in a party that will put forward a manifesto of change?

    Because democracy is the most important thing of all.

    And my Remainer buddies still don’t understand why I voted to leave the EU. Bye bye!!

  14. In China at the moment, amazing how many different brands of electric cars there is and how cheap they are.
    Electric vehicles make up probably 80% of everything in the city.

    Like the Chinese government or not, but atleast they put their money where their mouth is and actually built a capable EV industry that isn’t just an afterthought

  15. chinese automakers have started putting together (there is not manufacturing) their cars in european soil, using facilities of european manufacturers. The latter will become just middle-men. The consumers are just forced to pay a “tax” for their oligarchs.

  16. It is telling that the US imposed 100% tariffs, still worried and outright ban Chinese cars. EU only imposed 45%. It appears that European cars are much more competitive than American cars on relative basis.

  17. SoloDoloLeveling on

    BYD is a horrible company. they use trash materials for their batteries, chasis, brakes, etc. 

    want a highly volatile lithium ion battery that could explode? how about aluminum wiring instead of copper? want to burst into flames at any given time? 

    buy BYD..

  18. Super_Redditr on

    EU and USA are terrified of the nice cheap Chinese EVs while their domestic EVs are mostly overpriced garbage, sad