The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued an announcement announcing that it will impose punitive tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, with a rate of up to 100%, apparently to prevent Chinese electric vehicles from entering the U.S. market. After the United States took action, the European Union also followed the rhythm, because it has threatened to impose special tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, but has not announced the proportion of the levy. In fact, according to public data, China's single-brand car sales will only rank fourth in the world in April 2024, and there is no "dumping" in the world as the United States claims "overcapacity", so the so-called "excess" is just a rhetoric of the United States.
The United States has targeted Chinese products in many fields, in addition to automobiles, there are other new energy industries, and even claims that China's chip industry is also "overcapacity", if China has an advantage, the United States will define China's industrial capacity, highlighting the hegemony of the United States. China has established sufficient advantages through industrial upgrading, but the United States is not giving up and is trying to prevent the development of many industries in China through sanctions.
Although the proportion of Chinese cars in the world is not as large as that of Germany, Japan and the United States, China's electric vehicles are showing a rapid growth trend and are highly competitive, which has already scared the United States. In fact, China's electric vehicles, for Germany and Japan has also caused a huge impact, for this is also trying to keep up with the rhythm of the United States, when Germany has not yet moved, France is already ready to move, trying to promote the "sanctions" on Chinese electric vehicles, so as to try to maintain the leadership of European cars in Europe, and Germany is openly opposed to the imposition of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, because of fear of "backlash".
German cars originally had strong competitiveness, because German car companies have a huge industrial chain in China, so German cars are also sold back to the European market, if the "sanctions" against Chinese cars are adopted, China will also have enough reasons to deal with the German car industry, so Germany openly opposed the French proposal. However, because the United States has a strong influence on the European Union, the European Union has threatened to impose special tariffs on China, which highlights the relationship between the European Union and the United States, and in fact reflects that the European Union is serving the interests of the United States. During the conflict in Ukraine, the EU joined the sanctions against Russia, so the EU also played an inglorious role when the United States contained and contained China.
In the Merkel era of Germany, the European Union and China have been pushed to sign an investment agreement, but the European Parliament has always been stuck in the relevant agreements, thus exposing the collusion between the European Parliament and the United States. At present, the United States is still the only superpower, and the United States has maintained its military strength in Europe, thus establishing a deterrent to Europe, and the United States has been able to easily influence Europe's decision-making through long-term infiltration.