Hello, welcome to another M-Mlex podcast. My name is James Panicki. I'm M-Lex's

Brussels managing editor. Electric bikes, you don't have to own one to know that they're

everywhere at the moment. These are capital B bicycles, not mopeds, not motorized scooters, but what you and I would

recognise as a bicycle. But they're connected to a small motor powered by a lithium battery, which

gives them a little bit of extra oomph, particularly going uphill. And as a result, they've been

seen as a giant leap forward for sustainable mobility. And if you've seen an electric

bike on a European road recently, chances are that you've seen a Chinese e-bike. Chinese exports

for this year are forecast at around 800,000 e-bikes to Europe, which is 40% more than last year.

And these e-bikes are being sold in the EU at half the price of those

manufactured in Europe. Now, trade stories with this premise never end particularly well. Poppy

Carnel is M-X's chief correspondent for trade. Hello, Poppy. Hello. Now, your story this morning

on day the 2nd of October tells us that Chinese e-bike producers are expected to face

an EU dumping probe. What do we need to know on this? What's the news? Well, what we know at

the stage is that the dumping complaint has been lodged and we are expecting the European

Commission to open the dumping investigation by the middle of this month.

Beyond that, we are expecting also a complaint on the Chinese state aid

to the same Chinese bike producers,

which would mean a probe opening in December.

And what are the company names?

These are big names in the industry, aren't they?

Absolutely.

So Chinese producers include Fujitao, which is a very big one, AIMA and Giant, which is actually a Taiwanese producer, but they produce in China and sell directly to the EU.

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