On Tuesday 17 September, Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Robert Habeck, called on the EU and China to find a “negotiated solution” as an alternative to countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles. “We want to avoid a trade war with spiralling tariffs, which ultimately harms both sides”, he insisted, after talks with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao.
On Thursday 19 September, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commissioner for Trade, will meet with him to try...