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[–] swooper@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] FrustratedArtist@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)

EU taxes the shit out of Chinese electric cars to protect the automotive industry that failed to innovate here. In fact they've only been adding more and more taxes and fees on anything that's imported, usually putting the costs on regular people.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hopefully since the EU high density desktop/server RAM industry is pretty much nonexistent (as far as I know), they won't tax it to hell.

China RAM vs US RAM, they are both not EU "allies" now so there should be little reason.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

There is more commercial proximity between China and the EU than China and the US.

The current taxation run is to curtail the online markets like AliExpress, Shein and Temu to flood the market with garbage. Shein got hit with their dumping practices very hard.

Taxing the import of vehicles, when an industry already exists just makes sense. European automakers were sleeping on their job, granted, but the other option is to let them fail and surrender another industry to non-EU territories.

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