EU approves tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

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The EU voted to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles on Friday, but it didn’t go as smoothly as perhaps hoped. But why?  CGTN’s Ross Cullen reports.  #EU #EuropeanUnion #China #EUChina #ChinaEVs

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00:00All 27 European Union countries voted on Friday in Brussels whether to impose tariffs on electric

00:08vehicles and there was no clear majority either way. There were also a huge number of abstentions

00:15which meant that the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, had the casting vote

00:20and the Commission has always been in favour of introducing the new tariffs and so those duties

00:26on electric vehicles from China will come into effect in November. The EU's two biggest countries

00:32France and Germany were on opposite sides of the debate. President Macron has previously called

00:37the level of subsidies from China unbearable but Germany voted openly against the measures

00:44saying that it feared a possible trade war with China. Beijing has called the whole issue

00:50naked protectionism.

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