Text|Editor|Shishuo Xinyu
The United States has once again laid a black hand on mainland enterprises! On the surface, it claims to be 'ensuring a level playing field', but in fact it is still following the old path of 'unilateralism' and 'trade protectionism'!
On May 14, the news that the United States announced that it would increase the tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles from the current 25% to 100% quickly appeared on the hot search list and aroused widespread attention and heated discussions among netizens!
On the same day, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Commerce successively launched a resolute response to the unreasonable actions of the United States: they exposed that the United States violated the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and also violated the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and urged the United States to immediately stop its unreasonable suppression of mainland enterprises.
The U.S. tariffs on mainland electric vehicles are a larger-scale sanction imposed on the mainland auto industry in 2018 on the basis of the Trump administration's invocation of Section 301 tariffs on mainland companies.
The so-called 'Section 301' is Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974. The Sea clause stipulates that in order to protect the rights of the United States in international trade, the United States can retaliate against other countries that are deemed to have "unreasonable" and "unfair" trade practices.
However, after the Trump administration invoked Section 301 to impose sanctions on mainland companies, the mainland took the matter to the World Trade Organization (WTO). On September 15, 2020, the WTO panel found that the US tax measures involved in the case violated WTO obligations.
Now, the U.S. government, which has been found by WTO experts to have violated relevant regulations, has not only failed to correct its own mistakes, but has intensified its efforts to once again extend its claws to the mainland's electric vehicle industry, raising tariffs from 25% to 100%.
Of course, this perverse practice of the United States has been widely rejected by the mainland officials and the common people. However, there are still American fans on social platforms who are speaking for the United States and have opened the guardian mode.
Some U.S. fans said, weren't domestic imported cars also have high tariffs in the past? Why can't the United States give high tariffs on imported cars now?
Some American fans are even more excessive, the oil in the United States is so cheap, isn't it fragrant to use oil cars, why buy your electric car? Besides, your technology can be compared to others?
Seeing the views of these two beautiful fans, the editor was really surprised! According to their logic, if someone punches you, you still bend over, bow and say thank you!
Of course, in the face of this kind of brainless remarks of beautiful fans, our netizens will not get used to them, and immediately made a strong response at the bottom!
01. In the past, compared with the United States, the automobile foundation was relatively thin, so we raised tariffs to protect the domestic automobile industry. Is the United States now lagging behind us?
02. Is our automobile industry really so strong now? It's so strong that American fans have to admit that the United States is inferior to us for the sake of protecting the Lord?
03. Since U.S. fans say that U.S. oil is cheap and doesn't use electric vehicles, is it superfluous for the U.S. government to raise tariffs to 100%?
04. U.S. oil is cheap! So why does the United States still use this kind of means, which has long been proven to be illegal, to suppress the mainland's electric vehicles?
Xiaobian believes that the United States has once again raised China's electric vehicle tariffs, which proves that the United States is indeed anxious and scared now! At the same time, I also advise some American fans not to whitewash the behavior of the United States on social platforms, otherwise they will be countered by public opinion!
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