News Analysis
Turkey, the transcontinental country with a budding automobile industry, has imposed a 40 percent tariff on electric vehicle imports from China.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had decided to impose the tariff on China, but not specifically on electric cars made in other countries, according to the country’s official announcement on March 3.
Sun Kai (a pseudonym), manager of a car store in Shanghai, confirmed with The Epoch Times on March 6 that Turkey didn’t impose a similar tariff on Tesla and Toyota, but only Chinese-made brands.
Turkey may be following the U.S.’s lead (27.5 percent) in imposing a high tariff on Chinese vehicles so to prevent low-price dumping while protecting its burgeoning electric vehicle industry and the European market, speculated Sun, citing the significance as Turkey is a critical trade hub straddling Europe and Asia….