German Chancellor Scholz said that the German market welcomes Chinese cars.

German Chancellor Scholz said on April 15 that the German market welcomes Chinese cars.

Scholz emphasized that the European market must engage in open and fair competition with Chinese cars. He also warned that Europe would not tolerate dumping, overcapacity and intellectual property infringement. Scholz also said that when Japanese and South Korean cars entered the European market, people were worried that Japanese and South Korean cars would conquer the European market, but "this did not happen."

The German Automobile Industry Association issued a document on April 13 publicly opposing the EU's imposition of additional tariffs on imported electric vehicles from China, saying that this could trigger a trade war, threaten German employment, and endanger the EU's goal of promoting electric vehicles and transforming to digital.