Elon Musk, Chief Government Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and proprietor of X speaks through the Milken Convention 2024 World Convention Classes at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., Might 6, 2024.
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Tesla may very well be hit with a specifically calculated obligation on its vehicles produced in China and imported to Europe as a part of of the European Union’s determination to lift tariffs on Chinese language electrical autos.
On Wednesday, the European Fee, the EU’s govt arm, imposed higher tariffs on Chinese EV makers of as much as 38%. These provisional dutiies will come into impact from July 4 if the EU doesn’t attain an answer with Chinese language authorities. 4 months after this, so-called “definitive measures” happen.
At this stage, Tesla “could obtain an individually calculated obligation fee,” the Fee stated.
Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU commissioner for commerce, advised CNBC on Wednesday that Tesla was making the case for decrease tariff charges, which the fee was inspecting.
“We are able to additionally look extra in depth in a selected scenario of Tesla and subsidies [that] Tesla has particularly obtained in China, and that will lead certainly to totally different degree of countervailing duties,” he stated.
Shanghai, China is dwelling to one in every of Tesla’s greatest Gigafactories. In 2023, Tesla delivered 947,000 autos from its Shanghai manufacturing unit with 600,000 going to the China market and the remainder exported, based on Chinese language state media.
Europe’s strikes comply with the U.S. the place the administration of President Joe Biden final month slapped 100% tariffs on Chinese electric cars.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently addressed those U.S. tariffs.
“Neither Tesla nor I requested for these tariffs,” Musk stated in Might.
“Tesla competes fairly effectively available in the market in China with no tariffs and no deferential help,” Musk added. “I am in favor of no tariffs.”