Brussels is pushing for Washington to rethink “discriminatory” provisions in its new flagship green legislation, as alarm mounts among EU officials that the rules could prompt European companies to move production to the US. Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s competition enforcer, said Brussels wants to use a meeting of the transatlantic Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in December as a vehicle to address a brewing dispute over America’s new rules contained in its Inflation Reduction Act, which became law in August. The hope, she told the Financial Times, was that this strategy would yield quicker results than legal action through the World Trade Organization.
布魯塞爾敦促華盛頓方面重新考慮其新的旗艦綠色立法中的「歧視性」條款。目前歐盟官員們越來越擔心這些規則可能會促使歐洲公司將生產轉移到美國。