{"id":3146,"date":"2026-01-08T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/how-trumps-steep-tariffs-on-china-are-pushing-the-eu-closer-to-beijing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:31:39","slug":"how-trumps-steep-tariffs-on-china-are-pushing-the-eu-closer-to-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/how-trumps-steep-tariffs-on-china-are-pushing-the-eu-closer-to-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s steep tariffs on China are pushing the EU closer to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/500eb88a-21d7-11f0-8e61-005056a90284\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/AP09031104243.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                The global car industry is facing major upheaval after US President Donald Trump imposed a 145 percent tariff on Chinese imports in early April \u2013 the highest so far in the US-China trade dispute.                    <\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p>The tariffs, which apply to dozens of countries including US allies, aim to protect American manufacturing. But they are also making car production and trade more expensive and complicated, especially for automakers and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/podcasts\/international-report\/20250427-how-trump-s-steep-tariffs-on-china-are-pushing-the-eu-closer-to-beijing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global car industry is facing major upheaval after US President Donald Trump imposed a 145 percent tariff on Chinese imports in early April \u2013 the highest so far in the US-China trade dispute. The tariffs, which apply to dozens of countries including US allies, aim to protect American manufacturing. But they are also making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-automobile","7":"category-automotive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}