It was one of the key announcements in the State of the Union address given by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday 13 September: the EU wants to protect its industry from low-cost Chinese vehicles flooding the single market, and is going to launch an anti-subsidy investigation against them. The Commission will have to publish a notice of commencement of the investigation before it can officially begin.
Once this has been completed, the Commission...