Tag: Electric Vehicles

  • EV Truce Stalls

    Brussels and Beijing enter the final stretch before an October deadline with the electric vehicle minimum price mechanism only half built, Chinese duties still collecting on European pork, dairy and brandy, and a new fight over investigative jurisdiction poisoning the well. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The most consequential number published in the China-EU trade file…

  • EV Truce Test

    Six months into the EU-China minimum price experiment for electric vehicles, only one car has crossed the finish line, and the truce now faces its sternest examination yet from compliance haggling, surging Chinese market share, and a looming fight over plug-in hybrids. BRUSSELS, August 4, 2026 – The most ambitious trade truce Brussels has attempted…

  • WTO Backs China

    A Geneva dispute panel finds Turkey’s 40 percent surtax on Chinese electric vehicles, related duties on hybrids and an import-licensing regime incompatible with core WTO obligations, handing Beijing a headline victory in case DS629 while an appeal, if Ankara files one, would vanish into a paralyzed Appellate Body. GENEVA, July 31, 2026. A World Trade…

  • Ankara EV Blow

    A World Trade Organization panel has found that Turkey’s steep additional duties on Chinese electric vehicles, together with tariffs on some hybrids and a discriminatory import licensing regime, violate global trade rules. The decision hands Beijing a notable legal victory, but it lands in a dispute settlement system that no longer has a functioning appeals…

  • Auto Job Fight

    Unifor calls the moment “the fight of our lives” as U.S. tariffs, a stalled CUSMA and Chinese electric vehicles converge on a Canadian auto sector already down thousands of jobs. WINDSOR, Ont., July 27, 2026. Canada’s auto sector has become the sharpest edge of the country’s trade conflict with the United States, and the union…

  • Surplus Shock

    China’s trade surplus with the European Union hits an all-time high just as Brussels switches on its toughest trade defences in a generation, with duties on Chinese plug-in hybrids waiting in the wings. BRUSSELS, July 20, 2026. The uncomfortable arithmetic of Europe’s trade relationship with China caught up with Brussels this month. China’s trade surplus…