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Post-Brexit watchdog ‘ready’ to investigate flood of cheaper Chinese electric cars (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oliver Griffiths, the chief executive of the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA), which advises the government on trade defence, said it was keeping lines of communication open with ministers and had been in close contact with the car industry. “We’ll be ready to go if anyone does come to us,” he told the Guardian in an interview.

The European Commission also launched an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) late last year after warning that global markets were being “flooded” with cheap imports from the world’s second largest economy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Spot on. China is completely outmanoeuvring the west on affordable EVs. Personally I'd rather have one made by a well known brand, but if I'm in the market for an EV none of them would be affordable, so I will get a Chinese one.