EU country vote on Chinese EV duties delayed

BRUSSELS — The EU’s national trade experts will not vote next week to impose duties on made-in-China electric vehicles, three EU diplomats told POLITICO, with the point taken off the agenda of a Sept. 25 meeting of the bloc’s Trade Defense Instruments Committee.

To enable the vote, the European Commission first needs to formally share the definitive findings of its anti-subsidy investigation with national governments, which it has not yet done. With no new date set for the vote, the week of Sept. 30 now looks to be the earliest possibility, two of the diplomats said.

“They took it off the agenda but didn’t say anything as to why,” said one of the diplomats, who like the others was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive information. It was unclear whether the Sept. 25 meeting would go ahead without the vote.