新闻来源：www.bloomberg.com
原文地址：Spain Breaks EU Ranks With Sudden Call to Drop China EV Tariffs
新闻日期：2024-09-11
西班牙总理桑切斯在中国考察访问后表示，欧盟对中国电动汽车关税计划需要重新评估。这意味着一些欧洲国家可能会尝试阻止欧盟委员会实施新的贸易限制。
中国和欧盟长期存在贸易纠纷。布鲁塞尔决定从11月起对中国制造的电动汽车增收关税，称中国企业因获得政府补贴而获得了不公平的竞争优势，并且大量生产电动汽车出口到欧洲。但中国方面对此表示异议，并对欧盟出口的白兰地、乳制品等产品展开了反倾销调查。
西班牙作为欧盟最大的猪肉出口国，也因此可能受到可能的贸易战影响。同时，桑切斯此行还希望吸引中国的投资以促进该国电动汽车产业的发展。
中国一直在试图利用欧洲国家间的分歧来推进自己的利益。今年5月，习近平访问法国并与总统马克龙举行了一天的会晤，这被视为一种分化欧盟的行为。
习主席表示希望西班牙能继续为中国企业提供一个公平、公正、安全和非歧视性的营商环境。桑切斯在谈及委内瑞拉反对派领导人埃德蒙多·冈萨雷斯时提到，他与习近平没有讨论该问题，后者长期支持当前的委内瑞拉总统马杜罗。冈萨雷斯因委内瑞拉当局宣布马杜罗赢得7月选举后打压反对派而逃离。
习主席表示希望加强中西两国在高科技和新能源领域的关系，并表达了对欧盟对中国企业所作回应的不满。桑切斯重申，他的政府希望委内瑞拉公布其投票站的详细结果，并拒绝承认马杜罗是上个月赢得选举的获胜者。
原文摘要：
The European Union should re-examine its plan to impose additional tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, Spanish Prime Minister said during a visit to the Asian nation, underlining simmering EU divisions over the trade measure. “I have to be blunt and frank with you that we need to reconsider — all of us, not only member states but also the Commission — our position towards this movement,” Sanchez told reporters Wednesday in Kunshan, China, following a four-day in which he met with President . The Spanish premier’s comments raise the prospect that national leaders could try to muster enough support to block the European Commission’s effort to impose drastic restrictions on Chinese EV imports. Such a move would represent a dramatic reversal for EU trade chiefs in Brussels and their supporters like French President , who have been calling for urgent action to prevent European manufacturers being overwhelmed by state-subsidized competition from China.If a qualified majority of member states — 15 countries representing at least 65% of the EU’s population — doesn’t block the measures in a binding vote, the European Commission will publish a final regulation on the tariffs by Oct. 30. The duties would then remain in effect for five years.China and the EU have been locked in a trade dispute after Brussels decided to increase , which will be imposed in November, on Chinese-made electric vehicles, saying that Chinese companies unfairly benefit from state subsidies and are flooding Europe with excess production. In response, Beijing launched anti-dumping investigations into EU exports of brandy, dairy and . The EU plans to hit SAIC Motor Corp., Volvo Car AB parent Geely and BYD Co. with duties of 36.3%, 19.3% and 17%, respectively, on top of the 10% tariff that exporters from China are already subject to. Tesla Inc. would face an additional rate of just below 8%, plus the base duty. Spain, as Europe’s largest pork exporter, is particularly affected by the possibility of a trade war. The country is also the EU’s second largest car-manufacturer and is seeking to attract investments from China to develop its EV industry — part of the reason behind Sanchez’s visit. “We don’t need another war, in this case a trade war,” Sanchez said. “I think we need to build bridges between the European Union and China, and from Spain what we will do is to be constructive and to try to find a solution, a compromise, between China and the European Commission.”China has had a long-held strategy of taking advantage of divisions within the EU to advance its own interests. A trip to France by Xi in May for talks and a day of bonhomie with Macron — whose country has been a key supporter of the EV probe — was seen as an effort to sew division within the bloc.China’s goal is to convince enough European countries that the tariffs are a bad idea so they will oppose or water down the final levies. The hope is that the threat of retaliation generates enough pain in those countries to pressure their governments to persuade the EU to back down.In their meeting on Monday, Xi told Sanchez he’d like to see ties strengthen, particularly in high-tech and new energy developments, while also signaling his frustration with the EU push-back on Chinese firms. Read More: “We hope Spain will continue to provide a fair, just, safe and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies investing and operating in Spain,” Xi said, according to a readout from the official Xinhua News Agency.Sanchez, whose government granted asylum to Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, said he didn’t discuss that issue with Xi, who has long backed current Venezuela President . Gonzalez fled after Venezuelan authorities declared Maduro the winner of elections in July, cracked down on opponents and ordered the opposition leader’s arrest. Xi was among the first leaders to congratulate Maduro on his reelection, while several European and Latin American nations, as well as the US, have said Gonzalez won the most votes. Sanchez reiterated that his government wants Venezuela to publish detailed results from Venezuela’s polling stations and has refused to recognize Maduro as the winner of last month’s election.
