The United States has tired of the monopolies of great technological ones. And wants to start “chop them” with goal

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The United States turned a blind eye with its great technological for years. He did not pay too much attention to whether they abused their privilege position or had monopolistic and anti -competitive behaviors, Something that was pursued by the European Union. That has changed, and we are seeing how one after another the Big Tech are being scrutinized in the American judicial courts. Not only that: the threat to those giants is to finish chopped. FTC against goal. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) trial of the United States began yesterday, and for two months it will try to decide whether the company created by Mark Zuckerberg is a monopoly in the “personal social media services market” market. The consequences can be huge for the goal, which could be forced to divide into several companies. Zuckerberg on the stage. As they point out In The New York TimesMark Zuckerberg came yesterday as a witness to defend “his social media empire.” The FTC lawyers showed several emails in which they raised their argument: what a target “illegally cemented a social networks monopoly by acquiring Instagram and goal when they were small startups.” Zuckerberg made it clear in this Email of April 2012. Better buy than to compete. Source: Big Tech on Trial. If it is a threat to your domain, buy it. The Tactics of the FTC lawyers is to demonstrate that goal used their privilege position to buy companies that could represent a threat in the future. It is the strategy that Some call (rightly) “Better buy than to compete.” To those accusations Zuckerberg replied saying that they ended up investing a lot of money in them after buying them, but doing so they managed not only to reinforce their dominant position, but to eliminate those threats that Instagram or WhatsApp raised. The FTC proposes to chop target. If the government wins the trial, they point out on the Times, the FTC probably asks for the goal to divide into several parts. Thus, Instagram and WhatsApp could be independent companies that would compete with each other with Facebook, or at least that would be the intention of the government. Too much power. Thus, the government must demonstrate that goal would not have had the same success without those acquisitions. It is something really complicated, but this is part of the effort of recent years to try to mitigate the enormous power that technological giants have. These privilege positions allow these companies to clearly influence the exchange of ideas, entertainment and of course political debate. A peculiar judge. The case is chaired by Judge James Boasberg, 62, who already faced a Trump decision in a previous case but that above all attracts attention by a choice: he affirms that he has never used the goal applications, although he is familiar with Facebook Live, which has been used in some criminal cases. Google is in the same. Last summer, federal judge Amit Mehta pronounced a few words that were not evident were less important: “Google is a monopoly“. And threat of “chopstick”Fines do not seem to function as punishment for these types of companies, and for years another option than politicians has been considered Like Senator Warren They defend to act against the Big Tech: chop them. In the case of Google, the sentence could force Alphabet, the matrix, to get rid of Chrome and even Android. Apple, another of the objectives. In March 2024 the Department of Defense (DOJ) accused Apple of being a monopoly and to close the iPhone and iOS to the competitors. The United States followed the steps of Europe, although in this case, which has not yet concluded, a company’s split was not raised. Amazon is a monopoly. Years before the US Congress has already concluded that Amazon was a monopoly in the field of electronic commerce. The long investigation ended with A document of almost 500 pages, but had no specific consequences beyond an attempt to reform legislation in this regard. The US follows the EU wake. For years the European Union has been the nemesis of the large technological companies of the US, which it has stopped with fines and sentences that punished anti -competitive practices. We saw it a few months ago when Meta received A fine of almost 800 million euros for one of this type of cases. The new roof of the Big Tech. Microsoft was a clear objective of the European Commission at the beginning of the century, and since then the antitrust cases They have happened constantly, as companies such as Google either Apple. In the US, such issues seemed to be in the background, but from a time to this part of the US justice It has become very serious With these companies, as we have been able to check with Amazon, Apple, Google and now Meta. Image | Goal In Xataka | A 1.3 million rolex and a brilliant suit: the new Mark Zuckerberg has celebrated his wife’s birthday

It already has an alternative to Nvidia Cud

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Nvidia’s greatest strength is not her hardware; it is CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture). And is that most of the projects of artificial intelligence (AI) that are currently being developed are implemented on this tool. This technology brings together the compiler and development profits used by programmers to develop their software for NVIDIA GPUs, and replace it with another option in the projects that are already underway it is a problem. Huawei, who aspires to an important portion From this market in China, it has Cann (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), which is its alternative to CUDA, but at the moment this last software dominates the market. And at the current situation it is a problem for the Chinese companies they want, as proposed by the Government led by Xi Jinping, stop using US hardware and software. For China to have an effective alternative to CUDA is crucial right now, and it seems that it is already ready. Moore Threads is China’s Nvidia Li Guojie, a computer scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences that is considered an authority in China, holds that the most advanced Chinese GPUs, such as chips Ascend 910 from HuaweiThey are comparable to the current NVIDIA solutions in terms of calculation capacity. However, this expert also defends that in the current circumstances for this Asian country it is crucial to break down all the barriers imposed by CUDA. “China must develop an alternative system to achieve self -sufficiency in AI (…) Deepseek has had an impact on the Cud that exceed Cuda“, Guojie says. Perhaps Cann manages to break down little by little and manages to impose himself finally, but while he persists to some extent the development of AI in China will continue to depend on the US. “We need to establish a set of software tool systems for controllable that exceed CUDA” However, Cann is not the only trick of the country governed by Xi Jinping. Moore Threads It is one of the Chinese companies that are dedicated to the production of hardware for which companies aligned with the interests of the US and its allies cannot sell software or advanced equipment. Although it is very young (it was founded in 2020) it has something very important in its favor: its founder is Zhang Jianzhong, former general manager of the Nvidia subsidiary in China, so it is evident that he knows well what he has in hand. Moore Threads has developed several GPU for AI applications that, on paper, rival some of the advanced solutions that have placed in the Nvidia, AMD or Huawei market. The cards MTT S4000 and MTT S3000 They are its most interesting proposals right now, although, curiously, in its porpholio the MTT S80 card also appears, a proposal for games and content creation that, according to Moore Threads itself, has a calculation capacity of 14.4 Tflops in single -precision floating coma operations. It doesn’t impress, but it’s not bad at all. However, this company has something else: a software package with which the domain of CUDA seeks to break. He calls it MUSEis compatible with the range of MTT cards that I have mentioned a few lines above and incorporates a compiler, execution libraries, specialized libraries and code purification tools. However, this is not all. On paper its most attractive capacity for China is that it allows Reuse the code written in CUDAmoving it so that it can be executed About Moore Threads’ cards. It is difficult to predict what reception the hardware and software of this company will have in your country of origin, but there is no doubt that it is worth following the track. Image | Moore Threads More information | Moore Threads In Xataka | AI is the best thing that is happening to nuclear fusion. It is already accelerating the construction of Iter

This 1,000 hp electric supercar is a wheel vacuum. And to demonstrate it they have put it to do the pine

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“It is possibly one of the fastest cars that you have ever tried in curves. It is As if we had a magnet that hits the ground and allows curves to be made at speeds so unusual that even our body has to adapt. “ These are the words with which our partner Héctor Ares described the sensations transmitted by the Porsche Taycan In your first test. He described the electric car almost as one of those Scalextric cars to those who have not removed the magnet that sticks it to the raíl through which it circulates. This is because the Porsche Taycan uses what the German brand calls Porsche Active Aerodynamics (PAA)an active aerodynamic game in which the air is channeled through the low of the vehicle, is redirected where you want (brakes, for example) and next to the rear wing helps generate load. This load is the one that hits the car to the ground, which makes it especially fast in the curves. When a car has very little loadvery fast in a straight line circulates, it can reach very high speeds but In curve it is more unstable. When he has a lot of load, his advance is more difficult and needs greater power to reach the same speed. Instead, its passage through curve is very fast. In Icola, Formula 1 pilots use cars with a lot of aerodynamic load since the curves are constant. In Monza, on the contrary, cars with very little load are used because the lines are very long and the curves are relatively slow. Of course, they must fight with the famous parabolic of the end that puts a brake to convert cars into authentic rockets. But what happens when active aerodynamics is used is taken to the extreme? A car that is a vacuum cleaner To understand in a very simple way how active aerodynamics works, it is enough to observe the functioning of the DRS in Formula 1. A formula 1 car has an aerodynamic load selected by its engineers depending on the circuit in which it is going to compete. This takes into account, as we said, the curves and lines of the circuit. But when a pilot opens the DRS, the mobile part of the rear wing moves up. In this way, let more air pass, lose load (and resistance) and the car advances faster. When the pilot stops, the wing falls and has more load to pass the curve at a faster speed. Let’s say that has “more magnet” on the ground. In the 70s, active aerodynamics was prohibited in the competition but Colin Chapman took out an ace under his sleeve with the Brabham BT46b. He put a fan on his back, claiming that he served to cool the stressed engine. However, when it was launched, it generated a very strong aerodynamic load and allowed the car to a very high speed the curve. It was like a Scalextric car with a magnet. The McMurtry Spéirling putting face down That is what the McMurtry Spéirling. This electric car has become a sensation because combining the advantages of the electric car with a lightweight weight has managed to approach what we could expect from a rocket with wheels. This video in which the McMurtry Spéirling is seen removing the stickers to a Ferrari Laferrari already went viral. And it is that the electric one beats anyone because it manages to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.4 seconds. A figure impossible to reach if it is not with an electric motor and a very deep management of traction control. It measures 3.5 meters long, 1.7 meters wide and 1.1 meters high and with its barely 1,000 kg of weight He takes out all possible performance to a 60 kWh battery. With her, she managed to get the record record to the Goodwood hill, a narrow circuit and that hinders the passage of speaking engines that need wider structures. See McMurtry Spéirling appear It is like seeing a vacuum cleaner working at full power. So much that to full performance it generates a deafening noise of 120 dB, something comparable to the take off from a plane seen 25 meters. But the truly striking, as our partners explain Motorpasion They are the 2,000 kg of load that it can generate. Given its weight content, those 2,000 kg of load allow you to make the pine. Its creators have wanted to demonstrate To what extent you can take performance to your system in a different way: sticking it to the roof. Boca down, the car generates so much aerodynamic load that can be kept without falling to the ground, only using its soil effect. He gets it because, just like Chapman’s invention in Formula 1, he has A turbine on demand. This Turbine sucks the air Under the car and stick it to the ground (in this case to the roof), which makes it keep upside down as if it had a magnet. It is the same as it costs to move more a full power vacuum than one or two degrees below. At the moment, we know that only 100 lucky ones can enjoy a car that recently beat the Top Gear circuit record in more than three seconds. A record that had Fernando Alonso’s Renault R24the car with which he ran in 2004 and that mounted a brutal v10 that also sounded spectacular … although different from this (yes, it can be said) aspirator with wheels. Photo | McMurtry Automotive In Xataka | There is only one way to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in less than a second: with an electric car, clear

‘A Minecraft movie’ is becoming such a large phenomenon that is causing disturbances in cinemas

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‘A Minecraft movie’ is in its second week in cinemas and we can stop considering it a day flower: His monumental box office He has already made it the film that has raised the most in what we have been from the year. But there are more: the passes are becoming authentic jungles, with disturbances, interrupted passes and a long etcetera of phenomena that have nothing passenger. We are facing the most noticeable movie of the year … although for reasons that have nothing to do with their quality. Second weekend. 80 million dollars in the United States has raised, which represents a 50% drop with respect to its overwhelming 162.7 million debut, but remains a figure that makes the film the success of the year: it has already been raised 550 million in the world, advancing to ‘Captain America: Brave New World’. The film has given a very welcome thrust to a loose box office for this start of the year and gives the starting gun for a series of expected successes: ‘Thunderbolts’, the new ‘impossible mission’ and ‘Lilo & Stitch’ The most popular game in history. Although the first advances were badly receivedkneading a spectacular amount of Dyslikes In Warner’s official channels on YouTube, there is a different phenomenon, but comparable to that of the film of ‘Super Mario Bros‘: A failure between median critics and spectators, but a success among its target audience. It is actually pure mathematics: ‘A Minecraft film’ is aimed at a number of potential spectators of 300 million (it is the last official sales data, October 2023), and many of them are responding to the call. Not everyone plays. And those 300 million (which today will be many more) are multiplied by a very simple issue: many of the game fans They do not playbut they consume videos related to the game. It is calculated that could be tens of thousands of Streamers of the gameeach of them with their own thousands of followers, who are not necessarily players. Recall that there are 600 million registered players (the fourth most popular game in the world). It is a real land paid to take the Z generation to the rooms. A complicated phenomenon to adapt. ” Minecraft ‘has successfully brought to the big screen part of its aesthetics, but it is a not very easy task on paper. This creation of Markus Persson and now owned by Microsoft (by 2,500 million wing) It has openly rudimentary but very versatile graphics, which allow constructions of all kinds to be carried out, and without pressures: for many players, the attractiveness is simply to enter the game and build, which has undoubtedly been key to attract very young users. Fanaticism was triggered in the early last decade, before even the launch of the first official version: At that time he already had 16 million players. The infinite. In fact, the secret that, on the way to two decades after its launch, the game remains fresh and attracting millions of players are the thousands of mods, mostly free, which generate new ways to interact with him. Not only that: the ability of the game to generate communities makes it essentially a collective game and, a large part, lacking the central narrative. What, beyond its values ​​as a film, makes this Warner bet a considerable achievement: they have turned an experience into a narrative. And successfully. The key to success: the winks. The reason why ‘a Minecraft movie’ has become a success is because it speaks of you to you with the players: overflow memes and tributes to the games that the staunch fans know how to decrypt, of the phrase “As a Child, I Yearned for the mines” to the iconic sound bang of the game, work of C418. And above all, to Chicken Jockey, a apparently harmless meme and is generating an unexpected response among the young audience of the film: disturbances in the movie theaters. A liberating cry. The cry of “Chickn Jockey!” comes from the scene streamer. There is only 5% chances that a zombified character will self -generate on the stage just above a chicken, creating the illusion that he is riding it. That is why it is so weird and is celebrated when it happens in a streamand hence the chain reaction that this character has unleashed when appearing in the film, and that went viral when he was filmed by a spectator, in the first weekend of life of the film, with a mobile. Followed by an explosion of jubilation of the spectators. The chaos. In an unheard of situation (since the time of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show‘Even the most recent’WICKED‘Public participation in projections is not entirely strange). The Descriptions and Videos of what happens in the rooms are Out -control projectionswith notices to the police and people putting in the fireworks artificial or, of course, chickens. The latest manifestations of the phenomenon have been starring the own Jack Black asking for calm In a surprise appearance in a projection, a New Jersey room warning that they will only allow the assistance of minors if they are accompanied and a poster of disclaimer warning the spectators of the consequences if they do not behave. Cinemas ON FIRE. The subject will still give us to talk, because the box office and success guarantees it. For example, they begin to proliferate 4xd projections Where the Berraco behavior (except for the part of introducing farm animals, dirtying the armchair or that the cinema burns) is more than welcome. At the moment, he leaves criticism in an awkward place when explaining these phenomena, because they are not an extravagance without further ado: they belong to the highest grossing film of the moment. Do we embrace chaos or cry out about the end of culture by moving the spectators of the consequences if they do not behave. Header | Warner In Xataka | The largest artificial society experiment is happening in Minecraft: what happens when you … Read more

Thus you can humanize your dog or cat with chatgpt

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Let’s explain How to ask Chatgpt to make your pet into humanuploading a photo of your dog or cat to edit it. It is one of the latest viral trends when editing images with Chatgpt, where realistic results are not sought but pure entertainment. We have already told you how edit your photos with chatgptbeing able use many styles for it. People continue to experiment, and the last viral edition that has exploded in the networks has been this. Turn your pet into human There are several ways in which you can do this. In general, A simple request is usually enough in which you tell Chatgpt something like “I reimagine this photo and make a realistic image of what my cat/dog would be like if it were human “. The results can be very varied. Chatgpt tries to imitate the expression of your dog or cat, and use its colors to compose the photo, also the position in which it is. Sometimes you may have to specify sex of the pet to get right. In addition, if you do not like the result you can rebuild it, and a completely new one will come out. If the result does not convince you, you can also opt for a longer and longer prompt To make sure that Chatgpt maintains features and colors. You can use the following: “Convert this photo of my dog/cat into a realistic image of how it would look if it were human. A man. Keep the main features such as hair color, expression, and approximate proportions in human version. I want a photographic portrait result. “ And that’s it, experiencing with this you can turn your pets or those of your friends, in people, and have fun with it. Sometimes dogs can be a bit more expressive, so the results can become something better, but be they dogs or cats sure you end up having fun. In Xataka Basics | Free alternatives to chatgpt to create Ghibli style images from your photos

It was an abandoned nuclear power plant. Now he has a second life as the most silent acoustic laboratory on the planet

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Two gigantic cooling towers of almost 150 meters high flank what clearly seems to be a nuclear power plant in a rural Washington area. It is actually the acoustic laboratory NWAA Labs, one of the most silent buildings on the planet. An abandoned nuclear power plant. The laboratory was built on the vestiges of a pharaonic project that never saw the light, the nuclear washington Projects of Elma. Plants 3 and 5, part of what was intended to be the largest nuclear energy complex in the United States, were abandoned in the 80s without fissting a single atom. Designed to resist all kinds of impacts and earthquakes, the structures would have been extremely expensive to demolish, so the NWAA Labs adapted to them. The reactor is the reverberation chamber, the turbine room is the anecoic chamber and the old reactor control room is the laboratory control room. The facilities, still marked, remain a “disturbing” maze. The ideal facilities. The NWAA Labs is a project by Ron Sauro, an electrical and mechanical engineer formed in Stanford that combined its beginnings in NASA with being the keyboardist of the group The Rivieras, authors of a gold record in 1963. After a life designing sound systems, Sauro saw the unique potential of this nuclear power plant abandoned to bombing proof. The outer structure, with walls of 1.5 meters thick and eight layers of reinforcement bars, is designed to support an earthquake of magnitude 10 and the direct impact of an explosion of 10 megatons on its roof. The interior structure is isolated from the surrounding terrain by a ditch that minimizes the transmission of vibrations and noise. In another ditch within this, a circular and steel circular container is erected, originally intended for the nuclear reactor. The entire installation rests on a sandstone layer of more than 3,000 meters thick. An almost absolute silence. Thanks to these structures, the NWAA Labs presumes to have the two largest reverberation cameras in the world. Salas where the sound bounces up to 28 seconds without absorbent material, which allows to measure the sound power of a source or the absorption capacity of a material. In addition to the reverberation cameras, the laboratory has anechoic cameras designed to absorb sound and simulate a space without reflections. In these rooms, silence is almost absolute. The background noise is -43 dB (below the human hearing threshold). In the old turbine room, 198 meters long by 106 wide by 24 high, the reflections take so long to arrive (more than 160 ms) that do not interfere with some measurements. Who uses this laboratory. The NWAA Labs performs tests for the audio industry. The speakers are 20% of their business: over here more than 3,000 speakers of some 300 professional brands and high fidelity have passed. But it is also offered to other industries, which prove construction materials, acoustic insulation here, and even noisy washing machines or aircraft cabins. The laboratory also attracts musicians, video game and filmmakers, fascinated by their acoustics and post-apocalyptic aesthetics. Image | Walter Siegmund (CC By 2.5)

Chatgpt is already the most downloaded app in the world. And it doesn’t even manage to be profitable

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Analyzing application tops is usually especially boring. Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook and WhatsApp, the crown has always been of a social network. Until March 2025 in which, for the first time since 2013 (the year in which the most downloaded app was Candy Crush Saga), An app of this category occupies the podium. Chatgpt, the most unloaded app in March. The latest Appfigures report Collect three interesting data. Chatgpt was the most unloaded app worldwide with an accumulated of just over 46 million downloads. It is the first time in twelve years that a social network does not occupy the podium, although by the hair. Instagram also is around 46 million downloads, but occupies second place. The dynamics of consumption between iOS and Android. Chatgpt is the most downloaded app with 13 million downloads, above Threads and Capcut. In the case of Android, Instagram is still a leader, followed by Tiktok and with ChatgPT occupying third place with 33 million downloads. It is a good photograph about how the Application consumption dynamics According to operating system, and how perhaps iPhone users are looking for everything they do not find in Siri, something especially vitaminated with the integration of the OpenAI model into Apple’s voice assistant. That Openai has devastated in March is not a coincidence. Chatgpt has been appearing in the most unloaded apps in the main operating systems for months, but understanding its success in March is impossible without talking about Ghibli fever. A fever that managed to make They add five million users … in one hour. Openai’s opening to its image generation model in the free model went viral in just hours, generating saturation on servers which they had to respond with limitations. Sam Altman himself said that “it is very fun to see people love the images in Chatgptbut our GPU are melting. ” The monetization challenge. The OpenAi chatbot presents a paradox: it is one of the most unloaded apps in the world, but its monetization is not consolidated. The operation cost is very highand the consultations to GPT-4 cost millions of dollars to OpenAi every day. Openai itself reports that most users use the free version with GPT 3.5. Here the challenge is important: if the free version is limited too much, there is a risk of cooling demand for chatgpt. But if it is not limited, the server cost will end up being unsustainable. According to last year data, GPT has Something more than 10 million payment subscribersfact that you have to add an additional million for business plans, with a higher rate. It is not enough. Openai is not profitable, and we still know if it will end up. One of the collateral effects of the commercial war points directly to the price for using AI. Muddu Sudhakar, Aisa CEO, warned That if building data centers ends up being more expensive, it will also be to operate artificial intelligence systems. Competition with Google Gemini either does it helptheir AI models are not so expensive and are sweeping their competition in Benchmarks. If we add that not even the GPT Pro subscription, which gives access to Your best models included Sorait is profitable with a price of 200 dollars a month, the scenario is uncertain. According to Altman, GPT’s payment users “use it much more than expected”, flying through the service of the service. Image | Mockuups Studio In Xataka | Openai wants to square a circle with GPT-5: earn money and become the “new Google” offering something free

Tariff -up supercomputers

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In the GTC Jensen Huang event he said that Nvidia would be “in good shape” at the end of the year in reference to tariffs. Now we know why: the firm He has just announced which will begin to make AI chips with Blackwell architecture at the TSMC plant in Phoenix, Arizona. It is a key strategic step to avoid tariffs that threaten the entire semiconductor industry. Supercomputers ‘Made in USA’. It has also allied with two other Chinese manufacturers, Foxconn (Houston) and Winstron (Dallas), to be able to create new production plants in Texas with an objective: to manufacture AI supercomputers for the United States and from the United States. Production in both plants is expected to grow remarkably in the next 12 to 15 months. Jobs. In it official statementNvidia explains that the US manufacturing of these chips and supercomputer is expected to “believe hundreds of thousands of jobs and direct billions for economic security (from the country) in the coming decades.” A 500,000 million project. Nvidia estimate is that in the next four years these initiatives allow us to create an American infrastructure worth $ 500,000 million. It is curious that the figure coincides with that of the Stargate project… or maybe not. But. They are optimistic forecasts, of course, especially considering that they will need specialized personnel for these factories. Those professionals are abundant in China, but scarce in the US, As Steve Jobs and Tim Cook have explained years ago. What about the chips tariffs. These last days there has been a lot of movement and more confusion with tariffs. The Trump administration announced exemptions to semiconductors and electronics products such as laptops, mobiles or various types of chips. Shortly after the US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, explained that these exemptions were temporary and “in a month or two” there will be specific tariffs for all these products. Absolutely strategic sector. In the US they have realized that They were hitting a foot in the foot with those semiconductor industry tariffs. They have taken a step back because these imports depend too many industries, and imposing them suddenly and porrazo could cause a real disaster in their economy and companies. Now everything is in the air, but the objective is still clear: to manufacture technology in the US as far as possible to avoid the dependence of China and other Asian countries. Nvidia has several B plans. Escape from tariffs is becoming one of the clear objectives of technology companies. This Nvidia plan is not the only one with which he will try to go out with his to avoid the impact of these rates: a few days ago it was revealed that the company had managed to skip the restrictions on sales of its H20 chips In China Thanks to a expensive dinner. Image | Nvidia In Xataka | After strictly regulating AI, the European Union has identified a problem: it has been too European Union

In the middle of the commercial war, China has found a way to punish US exports. And you don’t need tariffs

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In full electoral campaign, when there was still talk of A fierce duel With Kamala Harris at the polls, Donald Trump recognized during An interview In Chicago that the term you like most about Shakespeare’s language is Tariff (Tariff). “For me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary”, proclaimed. View The forcefulness With which China has responded to its commercial war, it could well think that “tariff” is also Xi Jinping’s favorite word, but the truth is that Beijing has its own way of hitting the US trade. A much more discreet than rates. Tax pulse. Trump did not exaggerate to proclaim his love for tariffs. And good proof is that in the almost three months it has been in the White House, it has launched more or less clear ads (and also the occasional Auto amendment) of rates aimed at steel and aluminum or The cars and its components. Also of course the bad calls “Reciprocal tariffs”embodied in the famous rate table that presented A few weeks ago in the Rosaleda of the White House, and those that already appear on the horizon for Chips and drugsamong others. With the passing of the days and after Trump Pausara much Of its tariffs for 90 days, the commercial war has basically enchanted between the US and China. Washington has decided to apply to Chinese imports rates that rise at 145%while Beijing has returned the blow to Trump raising his own 125%. That answer does not mean that the tariffs are the only tool to which the Chinese executive has resorted to face the US. After all … aren’t there other ways to stop imports? Who needs tariffs? The news He has advanced it The American magazine POLITICAL: Throughout the last four months, Beijing has activated a series of bureaucratic obstacles and agreements that have had a clear effect on the flow of US imports, reducing them from or even stopping them. The method is more stealthy than the tariff war (and perhaps does not inject the thousands of millions to the public coffers that Trump is looking for with the tariffs), but allows Beijing to hit the US at a sensitive point, its commercial exports. THE KEY: Non -tariff barriers. “A tariff pays and things are more expensive, this is a total restriction to the ability to send products to that country,” Ben Lilliston commentsof the Institute of Agricultural and Commercial Policy. It is not a minor note if the intense commercial flow between China and the US is taken into account, which in 2024 resulted in the export of goods to China by value of 143.5 billion and imports that amounted to almost 439,000 million. But … How do you do it? POLITICAL Quote some specific cases. For example, Beijing has decided Do not renew At the moment the export permits of hundreds of meat packaging plants and has claimed that some products derived from American chickens do not meet their standards. You don’t have to look much in the newspaper library news in that line. Does A few days The General Administration of Customs warned of the appearance of Furacilina, a substance prohibited in the country, in three lots of meat of US companies. Result: suspended its import. The Chinese organism took A similar measure With the sorghum products of an American company after detecting “excessive levels of zaralenone”, a type of mycotoxin. The decision was announced one day after Trump imposed a 34% tariff on Chinese goods, although Beijing insists in which the restrictions for technical reasons and objectives apply: “To prevent risks and guarantee the safety of livestock production and consumer health.” Are there more cases? Yes. ABC News recently He informed that some 300 US slaughterhouses have not yet renewed their export permits to move beef to China, which seems to have found a substitute in Australian livestock. Beijing’s reluctance to renew the licenses have in fact stopped a good part US rescor export. And that are major words. In 2024 the US exported to China worth 1.6 billion dollars. Another sector that has also been emphasized of turbulence is that of natural gas. At the beginning of the month, with the commercial war about to climb, Bloomberg revealed that China had no matter of US LNG 60 days. The scenario remembers the one who lived years ago, during Trump’s first mandate, when the Asian giant stopped receiving US shipments during Around 400 days. Citing Kpler data, POLITICAL assures that so far this year of China imported only a cargo of gas compared to 14 of the same period of 2024. Hitting where it hurts the most. Chinese restrictions not only affect US exports, with their corresponding impact on a flow that moves millions of dollars. By applying Beijing can point to concrete sectors, such as Lift POLITICALindustries rooted in states (Iowa or Nebraska, for example) that usually act as republican vote heshes and therefore can exert greater pressure on Trump. Something similar did A few weeks ago The Brussels when he planned his own response to the first USA tariffs. Bureaucratic obstacles and restrictions also force companies to move in slippery terrain, even more than that of tariffs. “We do not want health and security to become a political issue,” Darci Vetter argueswith experience in the US commercial representative office. “Convert carers carefully considered and based on science into a political issue.” Marc Busch, who has also exercised as an advisor to the US Department of Commerce, is even more categorical: “This is what China does: commercial actions disguised as legitimate public policies with a scientific basis.” Is it a new measure? No, not exactly. The Chinese government seems to have intensified restrictions that are not new and can even go back to Your entrance In the World Trade Organization (WTO), more than 20 years ago. The US is not the first country that is found with brakes to its exports that coincide with moments of tension with Beijing. It happened to him … Read more

The US tariffs threaten the massive arrival of ridiculously cheap Chinese products. Europe has a plan

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First was the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Stamer, which made clear The posture of the nation in front of the tariff war. China was more ally than enemy against the turbulence of the global market. Then It was Pedro SánchezPresident of Spain, the one that manifested in the same line. Somehow, both leaders showed that, in the commercial war, there are different interpretations In Europe, and that happens while a word next to China, which will test the regulations of the old continent: dumping. The challenge after tariffs. For years, Europe has seen in China a formidable economic competitor, but many media such as The New York Times They have begun to slide a fear of the escalation of commercial tensions between Beijing and Washington, and how it can transform that challenge into A threat potentially destabilizing for the continent. As? The imposition of Extraordinary tariffs On the part of Trump has raised a commercial wall that prevents Chinese exports from addressing its traditional market, which has lit alarms in Brussels due to the possibility that an avalanche of subsidized products, from electric vehicles to industrial steel, be redir massively to Europe. With key industries such as those of France, Germany or Italy already in a vulnerable situation, the fear is that the so -called dumping (the practice of selling below the cost to eliminate local competition) intensifies until eroding the foundations of European production. Of course, it does not have to be so, and Europe has “weapons” to avoid it. Diplomatic balancing. One thing does seem true. The European bloc is caught between two fires: on the one hand, the pressures of American protectionism and, on the other, the need to contain the Chinese overproduction without triggering an open conflict. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has tried articulate an answer that combines firmness with pragmatism: he has promised to “closely monitor” the Chinese merchandise flowhas created a working group to detect dumping practices and has warned that Europe “cannot absorb excess global capacity.” Her messidated position was applauded by analysts, who consider her the best way to avoid an economic disaster. However, The Times explained that the unit of the continent can begin to show cracks in the face of the magnitude of the problem. Here are the words we commented at the beginning of leaders like Sánchez or Starmer betting on a greater approach to China as a shield in the face of the turbulence of the global market, while other EU members cry out for a more energetic defense of the European industrial fabric. Europe has a plan. The truth is that, in the face of the catastrophic image that has been warned in many media, for years the European Union has adopted a rigorous regulatory approach to contain the massive entry of Chinese products in your market. As? Through A combination of tariff measures, technical controls and non -tariff barriers that act as effective filters against dumping and unfair competition. Among the most outstanding tools are Antidumping research carried out by the European Commission, which have resulted in more than 100 current measures against Chinese products, covering from stainless steel to electric bicycles. In addition, the Rasff system (Fast food and feed alert network) constantly monitor the entry of non -compliant products with European quality and safety standards, blocking dozens of shipments every year. And the reach. To this is added the strict compliance with the regulation called Like Reachwhich requires any well imported good to register and evaluate its chemical substances, a firewall that prevents numerous Chinese industrial products from freely accessing the community market. Thanks to this normative network and its ability to activate ex officio investigations, the EU not only responds to concrete threats, but can also proactively dissuade the entry of goods that They do not meet the standards Europeans, configuring a legal wall that, until now, has effectively mitigated the wave of Asian overproduction. An asymmetric relationship. That said, and beyond the immediate context, the bottom of the problem may lies in an unbalanced commercial relationship. The Times told that Europe has accumulated a record deficit with China, one that in 2023 reached the 332,000 million dollarsfed by state subsidies that distort the market and by regulatory barriers that hinder the access of European companies to the Chinese market. Plus: the European Commission already has classified China as a “systemic rival” And bilateral relations have cooled in recent years, especially after Beijing support to Moscow during the invasion of Ukraine. European commissioners have expressed directly Your concern During recent diplomatic visits to China, demanding more equitable conditions and voluntary restrictions on exports of subsidized goods. Opportunistic messages and alliances. Despite these disagreements, China has intensified its Diplomatic offensive and media to present themselves as a strategic partner of Europe against chaos generated by Washington. From sponsored articles In influential media of Brussels until Official Communities That omit real tensions, Beijing tries to cultivate an image of stability and collaboration. In parallel, he has accepted Resume negotiations With the EU around European tariffs to Chinese electric vehicles, while minimizing disagreements. Meanwhile, European spokesmen respond cautiousspeaking of “reviews” or “continuation of conversations”, without offering clear adhesion or a firm rejection. An ambiguity that reflects not only the complexity of the situation, but also, perhaps, the fragility of a common strategy within the block. A crucial summer. So things, and with a photo that only points to A fear If we rely on European events and norms, the immediate future of European commercial policy could play a key game in the coming months. One is scheduled UE-China Summit For the second half of July, a meeting in which both blocks will try to soften friction before the impact of US tariffs is translated into an overestrial crisis in the European market. At the moment, the EU seems to have adopted a containment strategy: to endure the pull, maintain the balance between firmness and flexibility, and prevent the … Read more

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