This is extremely generalized falsely concluding from “American” to be the same as “Western”, when the reality the difference is HUGE between Europe and USA.
In USA Ford and GM have discontinued some of their more popular EV models. This is NOT happening in EU.
On the contrary EU manufacturers continue to expand their EV product lines.
The headline is a very big false equivalence.
Obviously Chinese brands have more success in EU, with about 13% tariffs than in USA with 150% tariffs.
Still European makers continue to compete on EV.
You can’t lump USA and Europe together on EV, they are very different markets, and Trump is specifically undermining EV production now!
You also can’t lump in South Korea, that have been very active making good electric cars, Japan is behind, and especially Honda seems to be pulling back on EV, but Toyota is finally beginning to show some decent offerings, and Nissan has been in the EV market for years now.
The article seems to think USA is “the west”, when it is nothing like it.
Chinese EVs have up to 45% tariffs in the EU. The exact amount is different for each company and depends on the amount of state funding that company had received
13% is about average, brands that cooperate with EU have lower rates, obviously brands that export to EU cooperate.
AFAIK no brand is paying anything near 45%.
I was not aware of the 10% base duty for all cars into EU.
But the rates you state are general for a brand, but do not account for per model negotiations:
It is not who owns the company that matters, but that they are made in China, and how much the factory has been subsidiced. The Tavascan is built on a Chinese owned factory, where VW has a minority ownership.
VW has 75% ownership in the Tavascan factory since 2020.
VW got an exemption on the additional import fees based on certain conditions (agreements on minimum selling price level, EU car industry investment assurances)
OK so maybe they haven’t got subsidies from the Chinese government, which is why they pay zero extra% duty.
As I stated earlier, the duty is based on the level of government subsidies Chinese factories have received. Where USA just has put a 150% tariff on everything car related from China. So I maintain EU and USA are not the same regarding duty/tariff, and EU and China are not the same regarding government subsidies, China subsidize Chinese car makers directly, while EU subsidies benefit all EV car makers disregarding country of origin.
This is extremely generalized falsely concluding from “American” to be the same as “Western”, when the reality the difference is HUGE between Europe and USA.
In USA Ford and GM have discontinued some of their more popular EV models. This is NOT happening in EU.
On the contrary EU manufacturers continue to expand their EV product lines.
The headline is a very big false equivalence.
Obviously Chinese brands have more success in EU, with about 13% tariffs than in USA with 150% tariffs.
Still European makers continue to compete on EV.
You can’t lump USA and Europe together on EV, they are very different markets, and Trump is specifically undermining EV production now!
You also can’t lump in South Korea, that have been very active making good electric cars, Japan is behind, and especially Honda seems to be pulling back on EV, but Toyota is finally beginning to show some decent offerings, and Nissan has been in the EV market for years now.
The article seems to think USA is “the west”, when it is nothing like it.
Chinese EVs have up to 45% tariffs in the EU. The exact amount is different for each company and depends on the amount of state funding that company had received
13% is about average, brands that cooperate with EU have lower rates, obviously brands that export to EU cooperate.
AFAIK no brand is paying anything near 45%.
13% is certainly not the average. Not sure who upvotes such utter dubious information.
All foreign cars have a 10% base import fee in the EU. Adding to that up to 35% extra anti-subsidy tariff.
Byd: 27%
Geely: 28%
Saic: 45%
Nio: 31%
Xpeng: 31%
Other: 45%
Excluding shipping, handling and homologation and not including VAT that is applied on top of the tariffs.
I was not aware of the 10% base duty for all cars into EU.
But the rates you state are general for a brand, but do not account for per model negotiations:
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/eu-tariffs-imports-china-made-evs-2026-02-11/
Cupra Tavascan has achieved a 0% duty, and Tesla is 7.8%.
I suspect several of the more popular Chinese models, have negotiated lower rates too.
Thanks for the follow up. It is worth mentioning that both Tesla and Cuprsa Tavascan are not Chinese owned.
The biggest/most popular Chinese manufacturers in the EU are BYD, SAIC, Geely, NIO and Xpeng.
It is not who owns the company that matters, but that they are made in China, and how much the factory has been subsidiced. The Tavascan is built on a Chinese owned factory, where VW has a minority ownership.
VW has 75% ownership in the Tavascan factory since 2020.
VW got an exemption on the additional import fees based on certain conditions (agreements on minimum selling price level, EU car industry investment assurances)
OK so maybe they haven’t got subsidies from the Chinese government, which is why they pay zero extra% duty.
As I stated earlier, the duty is based on the level of government subsidies Chinese factories have received. Where USA just has put a 150% tariff on everything car related from China. So I maintain EU and USA are not the same regarding duty/tariff, and EU and China are not the same regarding government subsidies, China subsidize Chinese car makers directly, while EU subsidies benefit all EV car makers disregarding country of origin.
And yet, EU automakers get billions in state funding from governments.
And you think the Chinese automakers are… ???