large trade surplus with Europe<\/a> was \u201cunsustainable\u201d, but insisted there was no \u201cone-size-fits-all answer\u201d on tariffs and that Paris would need to continue engaging with Beijing to make changes.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019ve been saying the right things. So far, I don\u2019t think the numbers show that it\u2019s happening,\u201d Lescure said during a press briefing. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of talk, but not much [in terms of] results yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Paris was ready to play its part in rebalancing trade, which would require targeted tariffs to address instances of \u201cobvious unfair competition\u201d, but also policies to boost Europe\u2019s savings rate, innovation capacity and competitiveness.<\/p>\n
The comments came on the same day that France\u2019s High Commission for Strategy and Planning published a report on the threat presented by China to European industry, which called for the imposition of a 30 per cent tariff on all Chinese goods or a 20 per cent to 30 per cent depreciation of the euro relative to the yuan to protect local producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing debate in France over raising tariffs on China heated up on Monday, with a senior minister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4177,138,607,4444,155828,219,2024,2487,1221,11775,155829,1223,111,139,69,6943,98286,3040],"class_list":{"0":"post-276889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese","12":"tag-clement-beaune","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-french","18":"tag-french-president-emmanuel-macron","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-paris","24":"tag-roland-lescure","25":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}