After receiving the formal notice, Yun Shi quickly forwarded the document led by Rigavia to Ye Qing.
Ye Qing stared and read the whole text as if reading a manual.
"Ultimatum?"
"Trade sanctions?"
"It seems to be, boss." Yun Shi looked at Ye Qing with both surprise and novelty on her face.
It felt like watching the news. Monster Industries was going to be sanctioned by Europe!
"Rigavia is really imaginative. He even asked us for 500 million US dollars in compensation." Ye Qing read the end and laughed at himself.
At the end of the ultimatum document, Monster Industries must express a position within three days.
Otherwise, in the European Union member states, countries that have business cooperation with Monster Industries will implement the proposal they voted on and punitively increase import tariffs on Monster Industries.
Like Hua Xia's Apple mobile phone, the European Union has been setting the import tariff of magic crystal mobile phones at 20% since the market was opened.
20% is not a small amount, but Monster Industries has not fought for a lower price.
In return for opening the market, they take water from every magic crystal mobile phone to avoid a large loss of profits in the domestic consumer market, which is understandable.
But in the ultimatum, the tariff standards were re-established.
If Monster Industries does not comply, they will increase from the original 20% to 25% or 30%.
More than half a year since the magic crystal mobile phone entered the European market, 50 million magic crystal mobile phones have been sold. After deducting tariffs and all costs, Monster Industries has made a profit of more than 100 billion RMB.
Increasing tariffs on magic crystal mobile phones will directly harm the profits of Monster Industries.
Very simple, users have been used to the previous magic crystal mobile phone pricing.
A sudden increase in tariffs, should the Monster Industry transfer this part to consumers, or silently bear it themselves?
Mobile phones will only lose value over time.
At present, there has never been a situation where a hot mobile phone suddenly increases in price without updating the model.
After reading, Ye Qing patted the document. "Recently, trade wars between countries have been hot. The European Union is addicted to trade wars. Do you think Monster Industries can also fight?"
"Then boss, how should we reply to them?" Yun Shi stared at the ultimatum document.
… …
The European Union gave Monster Industries three days to consider and reply.
Twenty minutes later, Monster Industries sent an official message.
To the State of Rigavia and the other EU Member States:
— All countries are welcome to raise tariffs on magic crystal mobile phones.
"Gone?"
"There's nothing else. The contents of the document can't be wrong. There's only this sentence."
"What does Monster Industries mean by this …"
"Do you want to find a translator who is proficient in Chinese to discuss this?"
When the documents were sent back, the representatives of the various countries had just finished their meetings. They were enjoying their lunch and none of them had left.
The representatives flipped through the document several times. Even though there were both Chinese and English attached to the document, they still gathered a few staff members who were proficient in Chinese to analyze the Monster Industries' reply in depth.
First.
Monster Industries' refusal to compensate Rigavia was obvious.
Secondly, a few staff members who were proficient in Chinese were able to figure out the attitude of Monster Industries.
— — Contempt!
Chinese was broad and profound. It literally said that they were welcome to raise tariffs, but behind the scenes, Monster Industries used a contemptuous attitude to tell those countries that raised tariffs that Monster Industries did not care about these threats.
This was not the result they wanted.
They were prepared to bargain with Monster Industries. They were also prepared for Monster Industries not to admit that the giant ship sank on purpose, and then the two sides would argue endlessly around the evidence.
In their view, tens of millions of magic crystal mobile phones were sold a year. Even if the European Union's tariffs were raised by 1%, Monster Industries would lose more than 500 million US dollars in profits.
Asking Monster Industries to compensate 500 million US dollars was purely a slight compensation for the current damage to the State of Rigavia.
90% of the State of Rigavia's import and export trade had been abolished. It would take a year or two to recover. The loss was more than 500 million US dollars.
Monster Industries could attack the State of Rigavia, which took the initiative to break the contract, but blocking the port and blocking the railway was a bit too heavy. It was not giving face to the European Union.
Taking out 500 million US dollars, everyone's face was acceptable, and there was an explanation to the media and the people.
500 million US dollars was not a lot.
It was originally a happy situation, but Monster Industries flew out to reject with contempt.
Since it was an official ultimatum, the member states could not choose to forget it.
So after lunch, the representatives of the various countries discussed and decided to fulfill the terms in the ultimatum.
All countries that opened the magic crystal mobile phone market to Monster Industries, as of tomorrow, the import tariff of magic crystal mobile phones was raised to 25%.
Since the tariffs were raised, it meant that the various countries were prepared for possible counterattacks by Monster Industries.
For example, they would unconventionally pass on part of the tariffs to consumers. Or they would raise the price of another liquid bioprinting material.
They were prepared to argue with each other and not order liquid bioprinting materials in the short term. Anyway, each country had a certain amount of these materials in reserve.
As long as Monster Industries changed their mind and was willing to pay 500 million US dollars as compensation to the State of Rigavia, the additional tariffs could be canceled at any time.
The notice of the tariff increase was sent out.
Monster Industries, however, sank into the sea.
The representatives of the various countries returned to their offices and prepared to officially start the increase in tariffs when the customs opened early the next morning.
Time passed little by little. When the clock reached twelve o 'clock in Europe, the network department of Monster Industries directly turned off the electronic key server used to verify the ghost armor production lines of various countries in Europe.
At the same time, the ghost armor production lines of various countries in Europe collectively lit up with red lights, and the operation screen showed a notification that [authorization disconnected] could not be operated.
There were people on duty at these production lines. At first, they thought it was just a network failure, but they waited for a few minutes and did not see the red light disappear.
Only then did they call Monster Industries' ghost armor business consulting center one after another to ask about the situation.
"I'm sorry, due to the server failure in the computer room, we can't restore your equipment for the time being."
"Please wait patiently, our technicians are in the middle of repairing."
"When can it be repaired?"
"I'm sorry, we're not sure about this."
"This is really unexpected, you even encounter disconnection when playing games."
The staff in charge of ghost armor in many countries were in contact with each other. When they asked their peers, they found that all the equipment in Europe was disconnected.
What were they waiting for? They quickly reported the news.
…
The response of Monster Industries was actually very simple.
It was impossible to compromise. The phone calls from Europe to the president's office were not answered.
Ye Qing did not care. He was in charge of the factory and the company, waiting for the eighth stage of the upgrade.
There were still four days.
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