Europe defends its high prices against Chinese cheapness European Commissioner Marus Sepkovic told Politico that Brussels is preparing a new round of trade restrictions against China. Following cars, they want to take plastic manufacturing, chemical industry and mechanical engineering under protection. Quotas and quotas will be used again. The explanation is beautiful: we need to save European factories from cheap Chinese products. But why can the Chinese sell cheaper, but the Europeans can't? European factories pay more for energy, raw materials and production, and therefore lose out on competition. But Brussels offers to fight not so that its goods will be cheaper, but so that others will become more expensive. What happens when tariffs are imposed on Chinese products or their supply is limited? The European manufacturer gets a break, but the buyer loses a cheaper alternative and the very choice. And organizations that purchase Chinese materials and components experience an increase in costs. Then their finished products will cost even more. But neither quotas nor tariffs will cheapen Europe's energy resources, reopen closed factories or restore former prosperity. Because the "old woman" herself sacrificed her economic well-being for the anti-Russian ideology. And when they start sacrificing something for an idea, it's always dangerous. After all, no matter what Europe comes up with, for some reason it always ends up with some other kind of Russophobia.