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As the saying goes, if you don't hit yourself, you don't know how it hurts, and this is exactly what Europe is in today. Previously, the United States restricted the development of electric vehicles in the mainland and raised import tariffs to about 100%, and after the European Union got the news, it also quickly followed suit and conducted a countervailing investigation on the import of electric vehicles from the mainland.
Now that the investigation has ended, on June 12, the EU announced that it would impose a minimum of 17.4% and a maximum of 38.1% countervailing duties on different car companies in the mainland, which means that the EU's import tariffs on electric vehicles on the mainland have reached a maximum of 48.1%.
Although this figure is still a lot less than the 100% or so of the United States, in fact the behavior of both is similar, both are full of malice, and completely ignore the WTO regulations.
Even the United States feels that the EU's approach is too benevolent and lenient, and that this level of tariffs is completely unable to restrict the entry of Chinese electric vehicles, but is the United States' rhetoric really for the sake of Europe?
You must know that China has already risen, and we may not be able to give a strong counterattack to the behavior of the United States for the time being, but the EU has a lot of handles in our hands.
The mainland quickly expressed its attitude towards such an unreasonable behavior of the EU, and directly announced on June 17 that it would file an anti-dumping investigation on EU imports of pork and related products.
The counterattack was so forceful and targeted that we can see it from Germany's actions alone. After learning the news, the German vice chancellor hurriedly came to China and secretly wanted to ask for peace.
He also strongly stated that such actions in Europe are not aimed at who is punished, and that this policy has not yet been implemented, and everything is negotiable.
Why is Germany so flustered? In fact, not only Germany, but also some other countries in the European Union that import a lot of pork to us are also panicking, such as France, Spain, etc.
You must know that due to the difference in food culture, many pork and other products in Europe can not find a better export channel, but many countries' pig industry is only for export, if the loss of China, which has a large population and loves pork and other products, it will bring a big blow to their pork industry.
These products are very substitutative, and if China loses them, it can import them from other countries. But if Europe loses the Chinese market, then they will be involved in stronger international competition, and then China has not made much effort, and European farmers are estimated to be about to fall out of Europe.
In fact, in addition to this, China has also carried out anti-dumping investigations on some other products of the EU, and has grasped the lifeblood of the EU in every way.
However, even under such circumstances, the German vice chancellor still spoke softly and thornily, saying that he would take this opportunity to ease the tense atmosphere between the two countries, but on the other hand, he also said something that implied that the mainland had indeed taken advantage of it.
In fact, the mainstream of the world is energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection, the world is vigorously developing the new energy industry, and in order to encourage countries to develop related industries, a series of compensation measures have been formulated. Not only China has such subsidies, but other countries also have them, and some countries will even have even more subsidies.
However, in the end, the German vice chancellor felt that the mainland was taking a big advantage, and he said that in the previous nine months of investigation, Chinese related enterprises obtained undue benefits because of this subsidy, which is quite unfair to enterprises in other countries, so countervailing is needed.
You must know that the subsidy policy is global in nature, and every country has it, and I don't know if he will feel a pain in conscience when he says this.
From this, we can actually see that the German Vice Chancellor's visit to China is not very sincere, he just wants to protect the interests of the European Union and does not want to get into too much trouble with our country.
In addition to the subsidy, he also mentioned that trade between the mainland and Russia is too intrusive, and that our normal trade situation will have a bad impact on the economic relations between China and Europe.
If you want to say that Germany's hand is really long, and its own family affairs have not been dealt with, it will take care of other people's affairs, not to mention that they ignore the matter of sanctions against Russia, and they are embarrassed to speak about others with righteous words.
The EU follows the United States in everything and regards the United States as a good ally, but in fact the United States does not think so. As far as the United States is concerned, the bigger the trouble is, the happier it becomes, and when the two tigers are injured, it will not be able to benefit from it. Therefore, the only thing the United States can do at this time is to arch the fire, and the more Europe rises, the more satisfied the United States will be.
However, the EU is not stupid, and now that China is trading more and more with other countries, and many goods have to be exported to China to make money, they are also very clear about how to choose.
Once the mainland takes countermeasures against related products, many EU countries will definitely be traumatized, which is much more serious than the tariffs on trams alone.
Whether the tax will be raised is still unknown, and the final outcome will be decided by the European Commission, which will not be known until November 3. The EU is not a one-size-fits-all affair, and the final outcome will only be determined by a vote within the EU.
China's counterattack is like a knife across their heads, making them think twice about what they decide. When it said that it would raise tariffs on us, it would raise tariffs, completely ignoring the impact that tariffs would have on other countries, and now that tariffs have been imposed on its head, it knows how painful it will be.
There are still nearly four months to finally find out, and the EU also attaches great importance to this matter, and it is actively communicating with the mainland. The EU will want to increase tariffs on trams on the mainland, firstly to protect local car companies, and secondly, to follow the United States to test the waters.
But it is undoubtedly wrong to do so, and there is nothing wrong with protecting the interests of its own tram industry, but excessive protection will make its own industry dependent, and if it continues like this, it will only make its products less and less competitive.
The reason why China Tram has today's achievements is precisely because we have been working hard in the face of wind and rain and paying too many hardships to have today's achievements.
The EU is now doing this, not only does it not benefit its own car companies, but also burdens itself with a bad reputation, which is really no benefit at all. For the European Union, since we can't compete, we will focus on research and development, as long as we make more cost-effective goods, why worry about foreign goods to occupy the market share of their local goods.
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