EU to Impose Tariffs of Up to 38 Percent on Chinese Electric Vehicles

Chinese EVs benefit from ‘unfair subsidization,’ which is causing ‘a threat of economic injury to EU battery electric vehicles producers.’

BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded on a ship are stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port at Suzhou Port, in China's eastern Jiangsu Province on Sept. 11, 2023. -/AFP via Getty Images

The European Union on Wednesday unveiled additional tariffs of up to 38.1 percent on electric vehicles (EVs) imported from China starting next month, in response to what the bloc called unfair subsidies by the communist regime.

The new duties vary from brand. Brussels will impose 17.4 percent on automaker BYD, 20 percent on Geely, and 38.1 percent on SAIC, a state-owned carmaker, the bloc said in a press release.