Hungarian Prime Minister： It will be counterproductive for the EU to impose tariffs on electric vehicles in China.

　　BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) According to a report by Bloomberg local time on Oct. 9, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban said that it would be counterproductive for the EU to impose tariffs on electric vehicles in China.

　　According to reports, in his speech on the 9th, Orban criticized the European Union for not considering the interests of the European automobile industry when setting environmental targets. He told the European Parliament that the lack of planning means that the automobile industry will be "bleeding", and supporting the decision to impose tariffs on China’s electric vehicles will only lead to more unemployment.

　　According to Agence France-Presse reported earlier, EU member states recently voted to pass the final draft of the EU anti-subsidy case on electric vehicles submitted by the European Commission, among which five EU member states including Hungary and Germany voted against it, while 12 countries including Spain and Sweden abstained.

　　On October 9th, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Commerce said that the EU’s countervailing investigation on China’s electric vehicles was not based on industrial application. In fact, the relevant European member States and their industries also had great objections. The relevant measures taken by the European side are seriously lacking in factual and legal basis, obviously violating WTO rules, and practicing trade protectionism in the name of trade remedy.

　　The spokesman said that China has always opposed the abuse of trade remedy measures and urged the European side to immediately correct its wrong practices and jointly safeguard the overall economic and trade situation between China and Europe.