EU threatens to walk away from trade showdown with China over lack of progress
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EU's tariffs on Chinese imports of electric vehicles with a view to setting a minimum price, as well as Chinese investments in the EV supply chain.
However, the ambassador, Jorge Toledo, warned during a panel discussion: 'We are having technical negotiations in Brussels … They are not making progress.
'They are not making progress so much so that we were supposed to hold the high-level economic [and] trade dialogue, and I'm afraid we are not going to hold it because … in order to hold it, we need progress. We need deliverables.'
The economic dialogue is one of a series of meetings supposed to take place in the run-up to a summit slated for July 24 in Beijing.
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These preliminary events are supposed to be used to agree the agenda for the summit and produce outcomes that the leaders can announce – at least in theory, although in recent years the main event has seen more sparring than deal making.
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