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Tai urges EU to join forces on subsidies amid US green deal tensions

Benefits for American production of solar panels and electric vehicles have attracted criticism from Brussels and elsewhere

Katherine Tai, the Biden administration’s most senior trade official, has called on the EU to introduce subsidies as she offered a trenchant defence of the US’s bumper green energy package that critics say unfairly supports its own manufacturers.

The White House’s Inflation Reduction Act, a $369bn flagship package to spur investment in green technologies, was signed into law in August, offering subsidies and tax credits for US-manufactured products ranging from solar panels to electric vehicles.

Tai, the US trade representative, said in an interview with the Financial Times following a meeting with European ministers in Prague that she was “extremely proud of the investments [in a clean future] that we have made as the Biden administration”.

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