纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英China and European Union Agree to Talks in Bid to Head Off Trade War
June 24, 2024 2 min 265 words
《纽约时报》的报道主要内容是，中国和欧盟同意就不断升级的关税争端举行谈判，以避免贸易战。欧盟计划对中国电动汽车征收关税，因为欧盟认为中国政府和国有银行向中国电动汽车行业提供了大量补贴。作为回应，中国商务部长王文涛和欧盟贸易专员将举行会谈。德国副总理兼经济部长罗伯特哈贝克表示，欧盟愿意协商，希望避免关税。哈贝克为关税辩护称，这些关税不是惩罚性措施，而是为了抵消违反世贸组织规则的补贴。 评论：该报道在一定程度上反映了中国和欧盟在贸易问题上的紧张关系。虽然报道提到欧盟可能对中国电动汽车征收关税，但并没有完全解释欧盟提议的背景和原因。欧盟认为中国政府对电动汽车行业的补贴行为不公平，并因此提议对中国电动汽车征收关税，以平衡竞争环境。然而，该报道没有详细说明中国政府补贴的具体情况，以及这些补贴如何影响欧盟汽车制造商。此外，报道也没有提到欧盟自身对汽车行业的补贴。因此，该报道可能存在一定程度的偏见，没有全面地呈现争端的背景和原因。
With billions of dollars in trade at stake, China and the European Union have agreed to engage in talks to try to resolve an escalating dispute over tariffs.
China’s commerce minister, Wang Wentao, and Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Union trade commissioner, will hold discussions on the European Union’s plan for tariffs on electric cars from China, the Chinese commerce ministry said late Saturday.
Hours earlier, Robert Habeck, Germany’s vice chancellor and economic minister, said that the European Union was willing to hold consultations, and he expressed a hope that tariffs could be avoided.
This month, the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, proposed tariffs of up to 38 percent on electric cars from China, atop an existing 10 percent tariff on imported cars. The commission said it found that China’s electric car sector was heavily subsidized by the government and state-controlled banking system. China’s exports of electric vehicles pose a growing challenge to Europe’s automakers.
Mr. Habeck, speaking in Shanghai after meetings in Beijing, defended the tariffs. “These tariffs are not punitive,” he said, adding that the tariffs are intended to offset subsidies that violate World Trade Organization rules.
It is unclear what a possible trade deal might look like. Executives at Volkswagen and other European automakers have called for Chinese manufacturers to build cars in Europe with European workers earning European wages, instead of importing cars from China.