Submission statement: The UK is currently choosing not to place tariffs on Chinese EVs, although the EU wants this as part of any negotiation for the UK to join “Made in Europe”.
You could say that the UK should ask for “Made in Europe” to apply to British products first and implement tariffs but so far this is still a negotiation.
Also, cheap Chinese EVs is encouraging European carmakers to come out with more cheap cars, which is good as new cars have become more and more expensive for consumers.
Some would say that the UK should focus more on UK-Chinese car company partnerships or ask China to build car factories in the UK (although there is one being built in the UK)
All in all, the UK is one of the few Western countries to not have tariffs on Chinese EVs, another one is Australia and this has led to significant falls in new and used car prices, but it is also leading to Western carmakers choosing to no longer export to Australia like Stellantis did with Fiat imports in Australia
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Why increase prices for British consumers to protect bloated German giants and German jobs? We aren’t like Germany, our car industry is not huge and most of it is already foreign owned. Chinese auto has already demonstrated its openness to joint ventures, BYD already has one with our bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis and Geely has one with the London Taxi company.
Incentivising more of those joint ventures would help us develop our own cutting edge electrical manufacturing capabilities, rather than attaching ourselves to the dying European auto industry
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Submission statement: The UK is currently choosing not to place tariffs on Chinese EVs, although the EU wants this as part of any negotiation for the UK to join “Made in Europe”.
You could say that the UK should ask for “Made in Europe” to apply to British products first and implement tariffs but so far this is still a negotiation.
Also, cheap Chinese EVs is encouraging European carmakers to come out with more cheap cars, which is good as new cars have become more and more expensive for consumers.
Some would say that the UK should focus more on UK-Chinese car company partnerships or ask China to build car factories in the UK (although there is one being built in the UK)
All in all, the UK is one of the few Western countries to not have tariffs on Chinese EVs, another one is Australia and this has led to significant falls in new and used car prices, but it is also leading to Western carmakers choosing to no longer export to Australia like Stellantis did with Fiat imports in Australia
Why increase prices for British consumers to protect bloated German giants and German jobs? We aren’t like Germany, our car industry is not huge and most of it is already foreign owned. Chinese auto has already demonstrated its openness to joint ventures, BYD already has one with our bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis and Geely has one with the London Taxi company.
Incentivising more of those joint ventures would help us develop our own cutting edge electrical manufacturing capabilities, rather than attaching ourselves to the dying European auto industry