Brussels intends to impose definitive duties on imports of Chinese battery electric vehicles (BEVs), the European Commission announced Tuesday, edging closer to a long-term solution to shield the bloc’s homegrown BEV industry from unfair competition from Beijing. In draft final conclusions of its anti-subsidy probe, shared with Chinese BEV producers as well as the Chinese and EU governments on Tuesday, the Commission unveiled its intended definitive duty rates for a range of BEV producers. If approved by EU member states, those rates would apply for five years from their adoption, meaning Chin…