China Only Recently Responded to EU on Tariffs, Ambassador Says
- Commerce minister from China called nine days ago: Toledo
- EU reached out to China four months ago on EV tariff probe
A BYD Co. Seal electric vehicle is delivered to a BYD center in Paris.
Photographer: Nathan Laine/BloombergChina responded only recently to the European Union’s requests for talks in the bloc’s investigation into subsidies for electric vehicles despite its attempts to engage for months, the EU’s ambassador in Beijing said.
“We have offered consultations to the Chinese government on this case for months,” Jorge Toledo, the EU’s ambassador to China, said at a conference in Beijing Sunday. “It was only nine days ago” that European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis received a call from China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao to start consultations.