Brussels, June 14 (EFECOM).- The president of the Government of Navarra, María Chivite, celebrated this Friday that the European Commission intends to impose a tariff of up to 38.1% on the import of electric vehicles from China, considering that their penetration into the internal market harms European producers because they are subsidized.
Chivite, who also chairs the European Alliance of Regions with the Automotive Industry, considered it “positive” that the community Executive “moves and takes steps forward to act in defense of the European automotive industry,” according to what he said in statements provided by the Government. of Navarre.
The socialist leader also asked that the next European Commission that emerges after the European elections and the negotiations that the EU leaders will hold this June be “sensitive to regional specificity” and that it guarantee fair industrial competition on equal terms.
“The European automotive industry requires bold, transversal and decisive measures, also budgetary support, to guarantee the success of its transformation, its competitiveness and its leading position in the market,” added Chivite.
The president of Navarra praised the quality and the “commitment to innovation and decarbonization” of the EU automobile industry and noted that these characteristics “provide added value to the product and the Europe brand.”
The European Commission’s proposal to impose a tariff of up to 38.1% on Chinese electric cars comes after the preliminary conclusions of an investigation that Brussels launched last October to determine whether these imports are harming European manufacturers.
According to those initial results, the entire electric vehicle supply chain “benefits, to a large extent, from unfair subsidies in China”, which “presents a clearly foreseeable and imminent threat to the EU industry.”
The tariff proposed by Brussels, whose provisional application would begin on July 4 at the latest, would range from 17.4% to the manufacturer BYD, up to 38.1% to SAIC, and 20% to Geely.
The Alliance of Regions with the Automotive Industry chaired by Chivite is a political network that brings together territories from across the EU with the presence of car factories, promoted by the European Committee of the Regions (CdR), the consultative body that represents the local and regional authorities of the Union.
In total, there are six Spanish communities that are part of the platform: Andalusia, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Galicia and Castilla y León, in addition to Navarra itself, which currently holds the temporary presidency of the entity. EFECOM
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