EU probe into Chinese electric vehicles is ‘advancing,’ Commission says – POLITICO

When Playbook asked Dombrovskis about the possibility of provisional measures, the executive vice president said: “One can expect next steps before the summer break.”

The Commission’s investigation — first flagged in President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the European Union speech in September, when she warned that global markets were being “flooded” with cheap Chinese electric cars — came after pressure from the French government for stronger European industrial defenses against Beijing’s fast-growing electric vehicle industry.

It prompted fury in China and stoked concerns of a wider trade war.

Asked if an announcement on provisional measures would be made before or after June’s European Parliament election, Dombrovskis was coy, saying he is not in a position to “pre-announce specific dates,” and that the legal framework is “setting certain timings which we’ll have to respect.”