European Union governments have revealed divided views on EU tariffs on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles in a non-binding but still influential vote. The informed sources informed about the vote. The European Commission oversees the bloc's trade policy and has imposed provisional tariffs of up to 37.6% on electric car imports from China to counter "unfair subsidies."
Sources say that dozens of EU members voted in favor of the tariffs, four voted against, and 11 abstained. A qualified majority of 15 member states representing 65% of the EU population voted against it. German carmakers, which made a third of their sales in China last year, have called on the EU to waive the tariffs, which would apply to Chinese manufacturers such as BYD, Geely, and SAIC and Western cars made in China, of vehicles from automakers such as Tesla and BMW.
Government sources inform that France, Italy, and Spain supported the tariffs during the vote, while Germany, Finland, and Sweden abstained.
