EU to vote today on Chinese EV tariffs – but Skoda says it will have “no effect”

Czech company’s sales and marketing chief warns China will just set up shop in Europe

Any tariffs on Chinese electric cars will have “no effect” in slowing their march into the European market, Skoda’s sales and marketing chief has warned. The EU will today vote to make the temporary tariffs on Chinese manufacturers – including BYD, Chery , Geely and SAIC – permanent. Currently, SAIC is charged an extra 37.6% on the wholesale price of imported EVs on top of the 10% that it was already required to pay, BYD is charged an extra 17.4% and Geely is hit with an extra 19.9%.

“ are going to be temporary damage for BYD,” the firm's special European advisor Alfredo Altavilla recently told Autocar. “In less than a year from now, we will become officially a European manufacturer." In April, Chery created a joint venture with Spanish firm EV Motors to move into a former Nissan factory in Barcelona. Meanwhile, Leapmotor has started production of the T03 city car alongside the Alfa Romeo Junior, Fiat 600e and Jeep Avenger at Stellantis’s plant in Tychy, Poland.

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