• @rockSlayer
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    335 months ago

    Cheap electric vehicles aren’t allowed, apparently.

    • themeatbridge
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      95 months ago

      If we were protecting American EVs, I could understand the tarrifs. China is undoubtedly manipulating the market and abusing their workers to price out the competition the way Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon, Google, Subway, and so many other great American companies have done.

      But there are no cheap American EVs. These tariffs are designed to protect cheap American gasoline cars, and the American oil and gas industry.

      • @lemmus
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        45 months ago

        Indeed. China is beating the US at its own game, only it’s the climate that benefits, not American shareholders.

  • toiletobserver
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    175 months ago

    Won’t someone think of the shareholders!

  • @[email protected]
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    105 months ago

    Nothing says free market like threatening countries for doing buisness with other countries because your country would make less money.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    25 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is suggesting the possibility that additional penalties could be put in place if the Chinese makers of electric vehicles try to move their production to Mexico to avoid newly announced import taxes.

    But Chinese EV company BYD has previously indicated that it was looking at factory sites in Mexico for the Mexican market.

    Asked at the White House news briefing on Tuesday about new tariffs, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said, “Stay tuned.”

    Tai said any penalties if China should follow through on factories would require a “separate pathway” from the Section 301 review of the Trade Act of 1974.

    That four-year review led to the tariffs on $18 billion worth of Chinese imports announced on Tuesday.

    The U.S. Trade Representative’s office after Tai’s remarks said that it could take several actions other than tariffs, noting that there are provisions within the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to address unfair subsidies and efforts to avoid import duties.


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