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.
如果你怀念空客(Airbus)和波音(Boeing)之间争吵不休的光辉岁月——在世界贸易组织(WTO)展开长达17年的诉讼之后，这场跨大西洋飞机补贴之争暂时休战——那么一场与绿色科技有关的争端极有望填补这一空白。