British media: The investigation into China's electric vehicles is not over yet, and Biden has set his sights on the next industry

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2024-05-13 06:09Published in Henan Senior Military Media Editor-in-Chief

It is reported that when the "hawkish" politicians in the US Democratic Party urged Biden to "quickly solve the problem of China's electric vehicles", this topic has become less and less popular in the United States, and the United States has begun to move to the next area. The U.S. media said that the qualitative and handling of the "electric vehicle incident" was less than three months after the U.S. semiconductor blockade against China was basically completed, and it can be seen that the U.S. side has moved quickly. This is part of Blinken's "small courtyard and high wall" strategy against China, and Biden now needs to do more in the run-up to the election, and the list of entities against China is getting longer and longer.

Earlier on the 10th, Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the Biden administration is preparing to announce tariff measures for China's key strategic industries as early as next week, including electric vehicles, batteries and photovoltaics. Raimondo had already concocted the message this week that "China's electric vehicles affect U.S. security," but she did not give room for China to negotiate or make changes. The Associated Press obtained information from anonymous sources that the tariffs imposed on Chinese electric vehicles will rise directly to 100%, which means that Chinese electric vehicles will be "doubled" to be sold to the United States, and sales will be greatly affected.

Then the British media exposed another piece of news: in the tariff plan to be announced by the Biden administration, a large tariff will be imposed on the "new industry" medical devices exported from China, and it is not clear how much. What puzzles the media is that medical devices belong to a field with a long history of Sino-US trade and do not involve the so-called "sensitive industries", and China's medical devices exported to the United States account for a high proportion. People familiar with the matter said that in the past, the United States imported medical devices generally from the local and European regions, since Chinese products have passed the standard inspection and sold to the United States, major hospitals in the United States are increasingly purchasing this kind of Chinese goods with lower prices and good quality, and many private clinics have also begun to buy Chinese medical devices.

Analysts said that the United States is likely to continue to target China's medical devices under the banner of "anti-dumping" this time, and it may develop to the entire medical industry next. Because the United States previously had an absolute advantage in the medical industry, the United States exported medical equipment, information data equipment and medical tools used in major hospitals to China, earning a lot of money; Since China's manufacturing industry has caught up with the United States and the integrity of the supply chain has surpassed that of the United States, in addition to the upstream of the medical industry, the United States can still export equipment to China, hospital beds, medical equipment, equipment, etc. have begun to have a large deficit, and China has also realized the localization of information and data equipment in recent years, reducing its dependence on the United States.

It is also worth mentioning that the tax hike on medical devices will affect the medical industry in the United States, just as the Trump administration threatened to "make China pay", but in fact, the increase in taxes on these products will ultimately pay the price for American importers and consumers. Against the backdrop of inflation, U.S. companies have called for importing more cheap Chinese food to reduce social costs, but Biden has banned it with the goal of "not allowing China to profit". There is a comment on this: "Late-developing countries can protect their own industries and implement high tariffs for a certain period of time, but the starting point must be self-protection; Now that the U.S. is close to 'hateful' levels of raising taxes on China, there may be more outrageous things to happen if Trump comes to power. ”

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