梅赛德斯-奔驰集团股份公司首席执行官康林松警告称，欧盟保护其汽车产业的举措可能会带来成本进一步上升的风险，并导致全球供应链出现扭曲。
Group AG Chief Executive Officer Ola Källenius warned that the European Union’s push to shield its car industry risks driving costs even higher and creating distortions across global supply chains.
康林松周三在柏林全球对话论坛上表示，一辆现代汽车包含从“世界每一个角落”采购的数千个零部件，以榨取效率。他称，增加限制会使生产成本更加昂贵，尽管它们提高了韧性。
A modern car contains thousands of components sourced from “every single corner of the world” to squeeze efficiencies, Källenius said Wednesday at the Berlin Global Dialogue. Adding restrictions would make production more expensive, even as they improve resilience, he said.
康林松说：“你创造了韧性——这是一件好事，但你也推高了成本。这是一场平衡的博弈。”他补充说，欧洲不能变成一座停止与包括美国、中国、日本、韩国和印度在内的主要伙伴做生意的“孤岛”。
“You create resilience — a good thing — but you drive costs upwards,” Källenius said. “It’s a balancing act.”Europe cannot become “an island” that stops doing business with major partners including the US, China, Japan, South Korea and India, he added.
欧盟上周在推进其偏向“欧洲制造”汽车生产的计划方面取得了进展。正在讨论的新规旨在为大众汽车集团和雷诺公司等面临中国汽车进口激烈竞争的汽车制造商提供公平的竞争环境。这项潜在的协议也存在让日本和韩国等贸易伙伴处于不利地位的风险。
The EU last week made progress on its plans to favor “Made in Europe” car production. The new set of regulations under discussion is designed to provide a level playing field for carmakers like Volkswagen AG and Renault SA who face intense competition from Chinese vehicle imports. The potential accord also risks putting trading partners like Japan and South Korea at a disadvantage.
欧洲苦苦挣扎的汽车制造商最近获得了更多的政治支持。本月，在运量飙升之后，欧盟与中国原则上达成了一项将限制中国向该地区出口混合动力汽车的协议。该计划是欧盟寻求解决其与中国的日益增长的贸易失衡问题的一个重要试金石，并可能塑造其对医药和化工等其他行业的处理方式。
Europe’s struggling carmaker are getting more political back of late. This month, the EU and China in principle agreed on a deal that will limit China’s imports of hybrid cars to the region, after shipments surged. The plan is an important test case for the EU that’s seeking to address its growing trade imbalance with China, and could shape its approach for other sectors like pharmaceuticals and chemicals.
这位梅赛德斯负责人敦促欧盟奉行更多的贸易协议，他赞扬了完成与南美一项拖延已久的协议以及推进与印度和其他伙伴谈判的努力。与此同时，他表示，在 globalization 几年来基本未受挑战之后，欧洲对于贸易保护主义的回归不应过于天真。
The Mercedes chief urged the EU to pursue more trade agreements, praising efforts to complete a long-delayed accord with South America and advance negotiations with India and other partners. At the same time, Europe shouldn’t be naive about the return of protectionism after decades in which globalization largely went unchallenged, he said.
这一警告具有分量，因为康林松还担任该地区主要汽车游说团体欧洲汽车制造商协会的主席。他的言论凸显了汽车制造商面临的一种紧张关系：他们希望布鲁塞尔保护他们免受不公平补贴进口的影响，同时又不要强加会使欧洲生产成本更加昂贵的本地成分规则和供应链限制。
The warning carries added weight because Källenius also serves as president of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, the region’s main auto lobby. His comments highlight a tension for automakers: they want Brussels to defend them against unfairly subsidized imports without imposing local-content rules and supply-chain restrictions that make European production more expensive.