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Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1
Europe recently put 17,2% - 27,9% import tax on Chinese steel.
That is to protect the market cause Chinese steel is cheap and competing with European producers.
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If I remember correctly the Chinese steel is cheap because they get a lot of state aid for producing it, so it's unfair competition. China has been warned about it to stop that, otherwise EU will put an import tax on it.
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Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1
Why are cars going to the USA without extra tax.
When people in Holland buy a german car there is at least 35% tax on it.
that is the dutch BPM tax. But the less polution (CO2) your car makes, the less BPM tax.
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According to this
https://www.government.nl/topics/car...rcycle-tax-bpm you have to pay a BPM tax for every new car, not only for the cars coming from Germany. Sounds more like an environmental tax, so this is not really an import tax.. two different things. This one is to motivate people to buy low emission cars.