On 12 June 2024, the EU Commission released a set of provisional findings concluding that electric vehicle value chains in China have benefited from subsidies making the final products too cheap to compete directly with those battery electric passenger cars produced within the EU. The findings have been disclosed directly to the Chinese government authorities and those OEMs that the EU Commission used as samples in the investigation. The findings, including the provisional tariffs per automaker and related company, are now awaiting any proposition from the Chinese government authorities to find methods to resolve the issue in a WTO compatible manner. (....)