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i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

China is simultaneously destroying the environment for profit and investing too much money in green technology?

A distinctive feature of purchase subsidies for BEV in China, however, is that they are paid out directly to manufacturers rather than consumers and that they are paid only for electric vehicles produced in China, thereby discriminating against imported cars.

That’s an interesting way to spin subsidies on the production of electric vehicles. Why would China pay companies in other countries to produce cars?

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Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That sounds a bit contradictory but there’s an important details. Part of the accusation seems to be about picking winners, ie giving subsidies to specific companies rather than the clean energy sector as a whole.

The anti-subsidy investigation has been intended to confirm the Commission’s allegations that manufacturers of battery electric vehicles (BEV) in China benefit from countervailable – i.e. specific and advantageous to the receiving companies – subsidies

If that’s true then a tweak to subsidies could technically solve the issue without solving the EU-China competition balance issue.

IMHO the EU should focus on carbon border tax, and on doing it quickly and efficiently. The idea is taxing import from countries that don’t tax pollution, or at least less than regulations, to make competing companies subject to similar emissions tax/regulation.

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