How high are the tariffs?The EU Commission has decided on provisional additional tariffs on electric vehicles from Chinese production, which vary in amount. Only purely battery-powered electric vehicles are affected. The EU already imposes a ten percent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, and the additional tariffs are on top of this ten percent.How were the […]
The European Commission has decided on provisional additional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. Starting in early July, there will be an average of over twenty percent additional duties, the Brussels authority announced on Wednesday. The Commission’s investigation found that the manufacturers benefited from unfair state subsidies, harming the European industry. “It is in the EU’s […]
Will the EU Commission announce its decision on tariffs on Chinese EVs today? Excitement has been building for weeks now. The impending decision is also fuelling the debate in Germany about its justification and possible side effects.The scientific community has now come out in support of the proponents of tariffs. “Germany and the EU are […]
The Czech Republic will open a new center in Taipei this week with the aim of strengthening cultural relations. “The Czech Centre in Taiwan will launch its activity on Friday, June 14” with an exhibition of Czech photographs, the foreign ministry said. Jitka Pánek Jurková, the director general responsible for the cultural centers, told the […]
Nynke Rozema has been Business Development Coordinator China at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland, RVO), an executive body of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, since June. Rozema is based in Amsterdam.Raymond Cui has been Deputy Head of China at Uhde Inventa-Fischer, an independent company within the Thyssenkrupp Group, since […]
In the European elections, some of China’s biggest critics in the EU Parliament have been re-elected for another term, including French Socialist Raphael Glucksmann and Slovakian Christian Democrat Miriam Lexmann, who has been sanctioned by Beijing since 2021. Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis also retained his seat. Dombrovskis had expressed interest in a second term as […]
Anyone calling for import tariffs on Chinese EVs and batteries these days is not making friends in Germany – neither in politics nor the automotive industry. Nevertheless, there are four reasons that speak for them in order to keep jobs and value added in Germany and Europe in the long term.Firstly: We need fair competition. […]
China has signed an agreement for a railway line linking the country with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. President Xi Jinping welcomed the project as a “sign of determination,” according to the state news agency Xinhua. The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway “is a strategic project for the connectivity of China and Central Asia and a landmark construction for Belt […]
Delicious zongzi 粽子 dangle here at a market in Chengdu. The sticky rice packets are traditionally served during the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China’s most important holidays and falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar – this year on this Monday, June 10.
Starting today, the first EU citizens are heading to the polls to vote on the future composition of the European Parliament. The EU election begins in the Netherlands, while Germany will vote on Sunday. The future parliament needs to focus on developing expertise on China – there is a notable shortage of sinologists, at least […]