In response to the EU announced an anti -subsidy survey of China's electric vehicles, economic and trade experts believe that if China has launched a counterattack, Germany will not be able to support it.
According to the Voice of Germany reported on Thursday (September 14), the Director of the Vienna Institute of Economic Research Institute, Phil Bomail said in an interview with the Frankfurt report that the Chinese government's many support policies for the domestic automobile industry haveIt violates the relevant provisions of the WTO, but because the European Union also has similar policies, the European Union now launched the investigation is "sitting in a glass house and throwing stones out" (German idiom, which means that if the other party counterattacks, the glass house is undoubtedly crushed.To.
He said that in fact, the European Union also implemented subsidy projects, so if the European Union really launched a punitive tariff, China would definitely fight back, just like the battle between the Airbus and Boeing, both sides thought they were reasonable.
Phil Bomail pointed out that once China and Germany have played a trade war because of this, because China ’s exports to Germany are greater than imports, punitive tariffs may hurt China.However, many German car companies, including BMW, have extensive production bases in China, and companies must bear additional punitive tariffs that products enter Europe, so "Germany will be difficult to support."
The Chairman of the European Commission Feng Delin announced on Wednesday (September 13) that it would conduct an anti -subsidy investigation on Chinese electric vehicles, and said that the price of Chinese electric vehicles was lowered by huge national subsidies. "This distorted usMarket.A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce accused the European Union in the name of fair competition on Thursday to protect its own industry.
