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It is the French and the Americans that lobby for this. The Germans make too much money in China to go there.
by throwaway4good 3y ago
It is the French and the Americans that lobby for this. The Germans make too much money in China to go there.
- gawa 3y agoTo add more context: German car manufacturers have a bigger market share in China (especially compared to other Europeans brands). They depend on China, especially VW which invest a lot there. China already threatens to retaliate with punitive tariff (or organize a boycott as it's easy to leverage nationalism there, something like "buy Chinese, not European!") in case the European Comission does something to defend its industry against the anti-competitive dumping practices that China may use (the same tactic China used to obliterate the EU and US solar panel industries). This is why Germany is officially against the probe [0] investigating the subsidies China may have given chinese manufacturers (mainly BYD) [1], and thus why Germany may not be so (publicly) in favor of this EV passport. [0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2023/754553/EPRS_ATA(2023)754553_EN.pdf https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2023/7545... [1] https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/10/18/german-minister-warns-of-threat-from-eus-chinese-ev-subsidy-probe/ https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/10/18/german-minister-warns-...