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I heard this as the only way to get China/India to voluntarily start doing their own internal carbon program. Essentially, you charge them when they try to imp
by 7thaccount 6y ago
I heard this as the only way to get China/India to voluntarily start doing their own internal carbon program.
Essentially, you charge them when they try to import into your country a tax to account for that. They come back and say "this tax really stinks...how can we make it stop"? You then reply "start your own carbon tax and we'll remove it". They then have two options 1.) Pay a tax to another government, or 2.) Take care of it internally
- IngoBlechschmid 6y agoI think this is entirely plausible. To put the emissions of India in context: by cumulative emissions since 1750, India is number 7, having caused roughly half as many emissions as my home country Germany (number 4). The US is number 1. Source: animated graphics at https://twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/1120715988532629506 https://twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/1120715988532629506
- monkeywork 6y agotariffs don't work like a tax to the producer they are an extra tax on the end customer. A widget made in china that has a tariff on it doesn't cost the company in china anymore - it does increase the cost for the person buying here though.... but unless there is a competitor that can sell a competive product cheaper than that the only downside is to the customer.
- Reason077 6y agoTariffs on a widget made in China would make that widget less competitive relative to competing widgets made in other countries. Chinese widget sales would fall, so it would “cost” them in the form of reduced sales and profits. Even if there is no competing widget, sales still fall due to demand elasticity.