Khedira came prepared, he said: "For example, the oil-impregnated high-speed precision bearings used in the five-axis linkage high-speed machining center, as far as I know, cannot be produced in China at present, and they are completely imported from your Ladur company. If you can take appropriate restrictions on the export of such bearings, I mean, cut some of the exports, or even refuse to export them altogether, then the Chinese will not be able to manufacture such high-speed machining centers. ”

"There is a supply agreement between us and Hanhua Machine Tool Company, and we have no reason to tear up the agreement." Julian said.

"Reasons can always be found." Khedira smiled and said, "If your company's bearing branch is shut down due to a production accident, can the other party still force you to supply?" ”

Julian glared and said, "What, are you trying to make us cause a man-made accident as a reason to break the contract?" You know, our bearings are not only sold to Chinese, machine tool manufacturers all over the world purchase bearings from us, including your alk. ”

"I mean, the fact that we had to cut our share of the supply to all customers because of the reduced shipments due to the accident is a justifiable reason." Khedira said, "As for how many sets of bearings you actually provide to each customer, how can the Chinese know?" ”

"It's crazy advice." Julian waved his hand and said, "If such news spreads, it will affect our company's reputation, and I can't promise you right away." ”

Khedira said: "Of course, there is another way besides this method. That is to add the products we want to restrict to the EU's list of high-tech products to China, so that it will be. Your company doesn't have any responsibility. ”

The EU's exports of high-tech products to China can be traced back to the time of the Paris Coordinating Committee. After the Batumi reconclusion, the EU also kept a list of products that restricted exports to China. Of course, the existence of this list cannot be explained by maintaining economic competitiveness, and the excuse put forward by the EU is that certain high-tech products may be used by China for military purposes, thus posing a threat to the EU's security.

Khedira came up with the idea of putting products that would have an impact on the market competitiveness of Chinese companies. In the name of military purposes, they are all crammed into the above-mentioned restricted list. In this way, companies such as Ladur are not liable for breach of contract, because this is a political constraint. Businesses are powerless.

In today's world. It is rare for a company to be completely independent, and most companies need external collaboration. A machine tool produced in China may use a servo motor from Germany, an oil temperature controller from Italy, a bearing from Japan, a grating ruler from a certain country, and so on.

Reasons for this: It is not necessary or possible for a machine tool company to produce all the accessories by itself. Professional things can be done by professional people, and the efficiency can be higher. In fact, if you have an objective mentality, you can see that even the machine tool companies in the United States, Germany and Japan also want to use a large number of purchased accessories. On the contrary, the way of thinking of large and comprehensive and small and comprehensive is more prevalent in countries with planned systems such as the Soviet Union and China.

Due to historical reasons, many professional accessories enterprises. are concentrated in the developed countries of Europe and the United States, and China is a rising star. It is too late to form its own complete supporting system. In the machine tools manufactured by Hanhua, there are many accessories provided by European and American companies, and the more high-end and sophisticated machine tools, the more inseparable the spare parts support of these professional manufacturers.

Khedira was a man of good intentions, and he arranged for someone to study the various machine tools produced by Hanhua in detail, find out the spare parts from Europe, and analyze the problem of regeneration. At this time, he handed the list he made to everyone, and then said: "Everyone, please see, this is the parts that Hanhua Machine Tool Company needs to produce high-end machine tools, as long as we can cut off the supply of these parts, Hanhua will be in trouble." ”…,

The executives took the list handed over by Khedira and looked at it cursoryly. They had to admit that Khedira had indeed put a lot of effort into dealing with the Chinese. He listed this list covers the European accessories used in all categories of machine tools, if it is really according to the content of this list, the embargo on Chinese machine tool enterprises, then China's entire high-end machine tool industry will suffer a catastrophe.

But everyone also knows that the effect of this is tantamount to drinking a donkey to quenching thirst. Regardless of whether this embargo will encounter strong retaliation from China, even if the embargo is successful, it will only delay the competition from China for a few years, and the Chinese will inevitably invest huge energy to overcome the difficulties of the parts themselves when they cannot get European parts. When the Chinese really come up with qualified parts themselves, the bad luck will fall on those European companies that are now specializing in the production of parts.

"With such a large-scale accessories embargo, I am afraid it will be difficult to obtain EU approval." Marco waved the list in his hand and said to Khedira, "The current EU restrictions on high-tech products to China have already been strongly protested by the Chinese side. If you add these products that are obviously unrelated to military purposes, it is almost a direct turn of face with the Chinese. I don't think the EU officials will accept this outcome. ”

Marco hasn't said yet

The subtext is that European business owners are equally unacceptable to such an outcome. China is now the world's largest industrial equipment market, and no one wants to be excluded from this market. ALK was banned by the Chinese government because it offended China on the issue of technology restrictions back then, and in the past ten years, the lost profits may be billions.

With ALK as a lesson from the past, companies that have not been banned by the Chinese government will naturally know what to do, and there is really no need for them to be stupid enough to follow ALK to play suicide games.

"I think we might be able to be a little more gentle." "For example, we cut out the less important parts from the list, so that the list doesn't seem that long and doesn't cause a lot of offend," suggested a Swedish business executive. Also, for more conventional accessories, it is best not to carry out complete restrictions, but ...... For example, use quotas to give the other party some breathing space. ”

Julian nodded and said: "I also think it will be more appropriate to do this, such as the oil-impregnated bearings that Mr. Khedira just mentioned, we can reduce the supply to Chinese manufacturers a little, but when it comes to completely banning exports to the Chinese, this is contrary to the WTO rules, I don't want to be sued by the Chinese to the arbitration court." ”

"Yes, yes, don't be too aggressive." Other executives also chimed in, and this time, more than half of the strength of Khedira's elaborate plan was unloaded, and it turned from a dose of fierce medicine to lukewarm swallowing water.

"Well, I'll edit this list a little more, and it won't embarrass you." Khedira said helplessly, he was still counting on everyone to participate in the battle to kill Han Hua, how could he offend everyone.

"The third ......" Khedira raised three fingers and began to say again: "I have made a rough calculation, at present, Chinese manufacturers in several fields such as machine tools, petrochemicals, electric power, etc., have used more than 200,000 patented technologies of our European enterprises, of which no less than 10,000 are irreplaceable patents. ”

"You don't want to ban people from licensing patents to Chinese companies, do you?" Marco chimed in. The suggestion put forward by Khedira earlier is fierce enough, if you really ask everyone to stop granting patents to Chinese companies, it is an extremely fierce suggestion, and the result is almost the same as banning the export of machine tool parts to China. ..., it is also very difficult to contain China by prohibiting patent licensing. The granting of patents is not the final decision of the patent owner, and various countries and some international organizations have relevant laws or regulations on this. For example, many countries have anti-patent monopoly laws that make it illegal to abuse patent barriers to monopolize the market. The purpose of such a law is mainly to prevent some enterprises from monopolizing the use of patents in bad faith, which will have an adverse impact on the development of technology.

"No, no, no, Mr. Marko, I didn't think so." Khedira hurriedly said, in fact, he had really planned to do this before, but seeing the appearance of this room of people throwing rats, he gave up this unrealistic idea.

"I have studied that the more than 20 companies here alone have more than 30,000 patents that are licensed to Chinese. I suggest that starting this year, we should increase the cost of patent grants across the board, increasing the entire patent fee by a factor of 3 to 5. I think this should be beyond reproach, right? Khedira said.

"I'm afraid this won't work, right?" Julian said, "It's not just Chinese who need to pay patent fees, we companies also have to pay patent fees to each other." If the royalty increases, our production costs will also increase accordingly, won't this also affect the competitiveness of our products? ”

Khedira smiled and said, "Mr. Julian, you have forgotten that your company Radur is both the user of the patent and the owner of some other patents. If each of our companies increases the patent at the same time, the royalty you pay to others will naturally increase, but the royalty that they pay you will also increase. Breaking even the balance of income has no impact on you. ”

"I see." "This is a very brilliant idea," it dawned on Julian. Mr. Khedira, I fully endorse your proposal. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your branch?