北京消息：10月6日周二，中国呼吁法德两国避免使用“保护主义”贸易措施。此前，法德两国领导人敦促欧盟制定相关法律工具以应对潜在的贸易战。
BEIJING: China called on France and Germany to steer clear of "protectionist" trade measures on Tuesday (Oct 6), after their leaders urged the European Union to develop a legal arsenal for a potential trade war.
法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙与德国总理弗里德里希·默茨在致欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩的信函中表示，欧盟“需要一套可靠的工具”以便迅速采取果断行动。据法新社周一获得的信函内容显示，这些工具包括“必要时”切断相关国家进入欧洲单一市场的权限。
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that "we need a credible instrument" for swift and decisive action. This includes the ability to cut off access to the European single market "if needed", according to the letter seen by AFP on Monday.
虽然马克龙与默茨并未直接提及中国，但这封信函发出之际，正值欧盟贸易专员马罗什·谢夫乔维奇即将前往北京处理贸易摩擦之际。
Macron and Merz stopped short of explicitly naming China but their letter comes just days before EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic heads to Beijing to tackle trade frictions.
中国商务部在周二发布的声明中敦促法德两国“切勿动辄鼓动欧盟采取保护主义手段”。商务部指出：“我们希望作为世界主要经济体的法德两国能够坚持开放、合作与自由贸易。两国应避免误入歧途，否则最终只会自食苦果。”
China's commerce ministry, in a statement on Tuesday, urged France and Germany to "refrain from encouraging the EU to resort to protectionist tools at every turn". "We hope that France and Germany, as major economies in the world, will uphold openness, cooperation and free trade," the ministry said in a statement.
目前，法德两国希望赋予欧盟委员会在数日内应对贸易挑衅行为的权力。按照其提议，此类措施无需获得欧盟27个成员国的全体批准，仅需获得加权多数支持即可实施。
"They should avoid going down the wrong path in the wrong way, only to ultimately suffer the consequences themselves." Berlin and Paris want to give the European Commission the power to respond to a trade aggression within days.
当前，欧盟最为担忧的贸易问题是对华贸易逆差。布鲁塞尔方面认为，这一逆差正对欧洲多个关键产业造成负面影响。
Under their proposal, such action would not need approval from the EU's 27 countries, though a weighted majority of states could block it. The EU's biggest trade concern is its deficit with China, which Brussels says is inflicting damage on key European sectors.
针对法德两国领导人的信函，中国外交部也在周二作出回应，称中欧经贸关系具有“互利共赢”的特性。外交部发言人郭嘉昆在声明中强调：“我们希望欧盟能与中国相向而行，通过对话协商解决彼此关切，共同维护全球产业链与供应链的稳定顺畅运行。”
Beijing's foreign ministry, also responding to the leaders' letter on Tuesday, called the economic and trade relationship between China and the EU "mutually beneficial". "We hope the EU will work with China in the same direction, address each other's concerns through dialogue and consultation, and jointly maintain the stability and smooth operation of global industrial and supply chains," ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said in a statement.