On the 3rd, local time, the U.S. Trade Representative Office released the list of Chinese goods subject to tariffs on the basis of the results of the '301 investigation', involving about 50 billion U.S. dollars worth of goods imported from China each year, mainly involving information and communications technology, aerospace, and robotics. Pharmaceutical, machinery and other industrial products.
In response to the US government's taxation proposal for the '301 investigation' that was just announced in China, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China issued a speech at the first time, stating that China strongly opposes it and will adopt similar measures in accordance with the law for US products in the recent past. .
In fact, to refute the reason why the United States provoked the 'trade war', the reason is simple. It is enough to talk about the common ground between Apple's mobile phones and 'panyu chicken'.
You're not mistaken! That's the 'high-tech product + trend item' that has many fans around the world and even was given the 'epochocidal' label, and although the name sounds simple and crude, only chicken and potatoes are the main characters. The Xinjiang famous dish 'Da Pan Ji', which is a forefinger, is actually the same reason.
The more you understand the common ground between the two, the more you understand how so-called 'trade wars' can be.
Let's talk about the Apple phone.
User: 'Where did you design it?'
Siri: 'I'm designed by California Apple.'
User: 'Where is your hometown?'
Siri: 'Don't ask where I come from, my hometown is in the distance.'
This real conversation took place between the user and Siri in Apple’s latest mobile phone, the iPhone 8. Interested Apple users can also try it for themselves.
Siri's answer reflects at least two facts: First, the idea of Apple's mobile phone comes from the United States. Second, Apple's 'Hometown' is not as simple as the United States.
The iPhone has hundreds of parts and components and comes from more than 200 suppliers around the world. After the technology company dismantled the iPhone, more than 50 of the parts suppliers to the iPhone have come from Taiwan and 40 from China. In Japan, more than 10 are from South Korea. Not to mention, these parts will also be assembled into final products in mainland China.
The familiar story of many people proves that: iPhones used all over the world are the crystallization of the global industrial chain.
Today, when you order a big chicken in a Beijing restaurant, I'm afraid I didn't realize that this may be a chicken that belongs not only to China but also to the United States and even to the world.
Last year, China imported tens of millions of tons of soybeans from the United States. Soybeans can be associated with 'panyu chicken' for two major uses.
First, soybeans are used to extract oil. It should be noted that the 'pan chicken' that is reluctant to put oil is by no means an excellent 'pan chicken'. Second, soybean meal after soybean oil extraction is the main source of animal feed. 'Eat goods' not only stand at the top of the food chain, but also stand at the top of the industry chain.
See it, Apple's mobile phones and 'Chicken Panchi', regardless of how the appearance of foreign land, is also the 'born son' of the global industrial chain. In today's highly developed economic globalization, this global industrial chain is deeply intertwined, a glorious and glorious , One loss and one loss.
Whether you are in China or the United States, you and my daily life have been penetrated by this 'chain'. Whether China or the United States, it is a grasshopper on this 'chain.' Understand this truth, you will truly It is appreciated that once the "trade war" between China and the United States erupts, it will bring disasters to the Chinese economy, the U.S. economy, and even the global economy.
——The Impact of 'Trade War' on the United States:
If the Trump administration imposes tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of Chinese imports, American consumers and producers will all become victims.
In simple terms, China's exports to the United States are mainly divided into two major categories: First, end consumer goods such as shoes, socks, jeans, and shirts. If the United States imposes tariffs on such goods, U.S. consumers have to face more. High prices. Second, China’s intermediate products exported to the United States are also a source of raw materials for U.S. producers to produce end-use consumer goods. For example, cans of Coca-Cola and Budweiser cans are imported from China. If the U.S. To impose tariffs on such goods, the production costs of US producers will also increase.
——The Impact of 'Trade War' on China:
If the American Coca-Cola, Levis jeans may be the impact of the 'trade war', the same reason can be proved, once the tax on the United States soybean, Beijing's big pan chicken may have to increase prices.
The United States is the world’s most important consumer market. China’s large number of export products to the United States also support China’s related industries, enterprises, and employment. Intertwined, once a “trade war” erupts, China’s imports, exports, investment, and prices will all be affected. influences.
——The impact of the 'trade war' on the world:
In the global industry chain, there are not only two grasshoppers in China and the United States, but there are also a large number of stakeholders that are inextricably linked to China and the United States. Once a 'trade war' breaks out, these economies will also become directly harmed. By.
In a nutshell, provoking a 'trade war' is unfavorable to China’s economy and unfavorable to the U.S. economy. For other economies, it will be a very negative thing for the world economy. Of course, for Apple’s mobile phones and large-scale chickens It's a simple truth, Mr. Trump and the military and cheerleaders who evoked the 'trade war' behind him, I am afraid they do not understand it, but they do not know what to do.