Amtrak resumes service after lightning strike; EU imposes tariffs on electric vehicles in China

FILE – An Amtrak logo is seen on a train at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia on Feb. 6, 2014. Amtrak service between New York and Boston has been suspended for the remainder of the day, the railroad company said Saturday, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Amtrak train service between New York and Boston has been restored after a suspected lightning strike caused a circuit breaker to malfunction, the railroad company announced Saturday evening.

The disruption caused a power outage on all tracks between Penn Station in New York and Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut, starting Saturday afternoon.

Amtrak announced the restoration of service in a statement posted on its website.

Evening trains between Boston and Virginia ran as scheduled Saturday. Most trains are expected to run as scheduled on Sunday, although some Sunday trains have been canceled and others are expected to run on a modified schedule, the company said.

EU imposes tariffs on electric cars against China

The European Union is imposing significantly higher tariffs on electric cars from China. Electric cars are the latest flashpoint in a broader trade dispute over Chinese subsidies and Beijing’s growing exports of green technology to the bloc’s 27 countries.

The higher tariffs came into force on Friday; a final decision is pending in four months.

After an eight-month investigation, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, found that companies producing electric cars in China benefit from massive state support, allowing them to undercut the prices of their EU competitors, gain large market shares and put European jobs at risk.

The higher tariffs are not an end in themselves, but “a means of correcting an imbalance,” said Commission spokesman Eric Mamer at the end of last week. “We naturally hope that we will find a solution that will enable us not to have to continue down this path.”