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tan zhu learned that the commerce ministers of china and the united states will hold a phone call in the near future to exchange in-depth views on sino-us economic and trade relations and economic and trade issues of major concern to both parties, including restrictions on electric vehicles that are of common concern to all parties.

mr. tan learned that this call was a institutional dialogue and communication between the commercial departments of the two countries. on january 11 this year, the ministers of commerce of china and the united states held a phone call. at that time, the two sides had in-depth and pragmatic communication on economic and trade issues of mutual concern. the two sides also discussed the national security boundary issues in the economic and trade fields between china and the united states.

the communication between the ministers of commerce of china and the united states will help promote the stable development of sino-us economic and trade relations and create favorable conditions for mutually beneficial cooperation between enterprises of the two countries.

in fact, china has recently conducted intensive communications with the united states and the european union regarding electric vehicles. not long ago, minister of commerce wang wentao visited italy, germany, belgium and the eu headquarters, and had in-depth and friendly talks with heads of corresponding departments, especially with the executive vice president and trade commissioner of the european commission dombrovskis on the eu conducted comprehensive, in-depth and constructive consultations on china's electric vehicle countervailing case and reached a principled consensus on the direction of negotiations to properly resolve the case.

mr. tan learned that currently, the china-eu working team is conducting intensive consultations.

since this year, electric vehicles have become the main lever for some countries to provoke trade frictions with china. mr. tan has also been paying attention to the progress of the china-eu electric vehicle countervailing case. we hope that the problem can be solved through communication, but at the same time, china's determination to safeguard its core interests will not change.