Comment by pyrale

> the same rules would apply to EU native competitors .. if there were any.

By this same logic, I guess we can say that the EU isn't trying to build a trade barrier favoring local competitors. So, while, as you say,

> It's what's knows as a "non tariff trade barrier".

...It's also not that, since the goal isn't prevent them from competing equally in the market, where they have no competition.