After breakfast the next day, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing went to the Sanatorium and Hospital together. Today was the day when He Zuozhi was discharged from the hospital. Even though the consortium was currently having a lot of worries, Li Guangyu still took Cao Weiqing to pick up He Zuozhi from the hospital.
Li Guangyu had very deep feelings for He Zuozhi. During the time when he had just time traveled, it was He Zuozhi who silently supported him behind the scenes, allowing the Li Group to develop smoothly in the early stages.
Business has never been a peaceful industry. It is full of intrigues, intrigues, and even some extreme things. Without He Zuozhi to help and protect him later, whether his industry can survive in the early stages is a question.
Although things in the United States gave him a little headache, compared with He Zuozhi, those things were nothing.
Just in the early hours of this morning, Hong Kong time, the U.S. Congress passed a tariff bill, which involves hundreds of products imported from the United States, mainly electronics and automobiles.
This time, the pressure from Japan's major financial groups is even greater, and 80% of the products are targeted at Japanese products.
Japanese automobiles such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and electronic product companies such as Sony and Panasonic are their main targets.
Li's consortium Bentley Group and Phoenix Group are also on the list. Tariffs for their Bentley, Jaguar, Land Rover, Maserati, and Lotus brands have been raised to 40%, and Phoenix mobile phones have a high tariff of 50%.
This leaves the Bentley Group's luxury brand models without any price advantage in the competition with Lincoln and Cadillac. Coupled with the continued weakness of the U.S. economy in recent years, the Bentley Group's share of the U.S. auto market will further decline.
Not to mention mobile phones. With the current tariffs, the Phoenix Group's market share in the United States will drop from the current 20% to single digits. The Lukia Phoenix Group is facing a similar dilemma, and Lukia has not escaped this time.
to survive the fate of increased tariffs.
As a businessman, Li Guangyu is extremely disgusted with this kind of government-based local protectionism, which will make his products face unfair competition. Originally, the products have some advantages, but due to the local government's intentional favoritism, his products will be exposed to unfair competition.
At an absolute disadvantage.
Li Guangyu knows very well that the Li Consortium will continue to face such situations in the future. Now he needs to accumulate experience in this area so that he can face it calmly in the future.
Cao Weiqing also knew the news from the United States. Now major newspapers in Hong Kong are reporting on this matter. Although he does not manage the affairs of the Li Group, Cao Weiqing still understands the importance of the American market to the Li Group. This has happened every time
It can be seen at the financial meeting.
The Phoenix Group is a group that Li Guangyu attaches great importance to. It will be the pillar industry of the Li Group in the future. It has just started to gain momentum, and the American consortium and the government have given them a head start.
In the car heading to the Sanatorium and Hospital, Li Guangyu next to Cao Weiqing said: "Guangyu, now that the U.S. Congress has passed the tariff adjustment proposal, I am afraid that it will not be reduced in a short time. Our automobile and mobile phone products will not be lowered in the United States in the future."
The pressure to expand the market will be very high. Instead of competing with them in the U.S. market, we might as well focus on Western Europe and the Commonwealth market, where the pressure will be much less."
At present, in addition to Xingyue Group in Japan, Pengyu Group in Pengcheng, Oriental Semiconductor Group in Baodao and Xinghong Sports Group in the United States, more than a dozen other groups will enjoy some preferential policies within the Commonwealth, especially in
Canada, Australia and other countries, the Commonwealth is a very huge market.
In Western Europe, since most of the group headquarters and registration places of the Li Group are currently in Hong Kong and London, they are unlikely to specifically target the Li Group, especially since the Li Group has brought them enough benefits, such as Airbus.
It was established through cooperation between Britain, France and Germany to counter the American civil aviation aircraft manufacturing company.
Whether now or in the future, the risks and pressures faced by the Lee Consortium in Western Europe and the Commonwealth are far less than the pressures they face in the United States.
It’s not that Cao Weiqing is unclear about Li Guangyu’s strategy, but it’s just that the mainland’s reform and opening up is still in its early stages, and the huge market potential has not yet been released. At present, relying on the mainland market cannot allow the Li Group to grow rapidly.
In the future, the mainland market will definitely be the core development area of the Li Group, but that will be ten or twenty years from now. At present, they still need to firmly grasp the Western market and stabilize the Baodao and Southeast Asian markets, so that the development of the Li Group will not be stable.
will suffer a greater blow.
As for the markets in Japan and South Korea, Cao Weiqing never believed that they would become the core markets for the long-term development of the Lee Group. The consortiums in these two places are also not fuel-efficient. For example, the current Bentley Group has a very large market share in these two countries.
is low, the citizens of these two countries are more willing to buy their own country’s automobile products and are not very keen on foreign products.
Li Guangyu said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about the company's affairs. I know how to solve them. Your task now is to take good care of the three babies. This time it is just an increase in tariffs on our cars and mobile phones, and it will not affect the development of our industry."
fundamental.”
Now Cao Weiqing is raising three children alone. Although she has the help of He's mother and servants, she is still very tired. Li Guangyu doesn't want her to worry about the group's affairs.
This time the United States has increased tariffs on its products. It would be a lie to say that it has no impact. The United States is currently the largest market, which is enough to attract companies from various countries to enter and share profits.
Japan's major conglomerates have been under special pressure from the US consortium and the government since the late 1960s. Why are they still attacking the US market? No matter how restricted and suppressed by the US government, they are unwilling to lose the US market. It's because the interests here are too great.
It is so big that several major Japanese conglomerates are unwilling to lose this place.
As a last resort, Li Guangyu is also unwilling to lose the market in the United States. Fortunately, he has experience worth learning from. Several major American consortiums are already familiar with such suppression by the United States. Li Guangyu can definitely borrow their successful experience to ensure that
Our products will not suffer much loss in the U.S. market, and they may be able to increase their market share in the future.
Look at the Toyota Group, which is becoming more and more powerful in the United States. Facing the suppression and restrictions of the United States, it began to establish production sites in the United States as early as 1979, and also entered into a joint venture with General Motors Group to allow Toyota cars to import
There will be no restrictions on quantity and tariffs.
Cao Weiqing knew that Li Guangyu didn't want to worry about him, but as Li Guangyu's wife and the executive officer of Li's consortium, how could he not care now? After all, the United States is the super hegemon in the world, and those consortiums in the United States are very powerful. At present, Li Guangyu
Compared with them, the gap between a young child and a mature man is like that of the Consortium.
Many consortiums in the United States have a history of hundreds of years, and the period when the Li Consortium really developed rapidly was when Li Guangyu accepted it. Regardless of whether Li Guangyu's grandfather or father was at the helm, the Li family industry was nothing more than a clothing foundry.
In just a few years, Li Guangyu developed the family business into a comprehensive consortium spanning finance, automobiles, real estate, electronic games, retail supermarkets, hotels, entertainment media, etc.
This is a miracle in the world. This time the United States specifically targeted their industry probably for this reason. Under the leadership of Li Guangyu, the Li Group has developed too fast. This speed of development shocked them and also