If you’re wistful for the glory days of the Airbus-Boeing bust-up — with the transatlantic aircraft subsidies tussle suspended after 17 years of World Trade Organization litigation — then a dispute over green tech has ambitions to fill the gap.Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which emerged out of the congressional mire to become law in August, has worried the EU. It contains blatantly discriminatory measures, offering US consumers tax credits to buy electric vehicles only if they’re assembled in North America. It also requires critical minerals and batteries increasingly to be bought from North America or a country with which the US has a preferential trade agreement, and deters sourcing from high-risk countries such as China.
如果你懷念空巴(Airbus)和波音(Boeing)之間爭吵不休的光輝歲月——在世界貿易組織(WTO)展開長達17年的訴訟之後，這場跨大西洋飛機補貼之爭暫時休戰——那麼一場與綠色科技有關的爭端極有望填補這一空白。