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Topic	U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles
1337toothbrush 05/14/24 7:49:50 PM #45:	Antifar posted... The most likely outcome of this feels like Americans buying gas-powered vehicles instead Absolutely, since none of the other countries have invested as much in electric vehicles. American car companies in particular have almost seemed to sabotage efforts by making them as expensive and unappealing as possible (like introducing paid DLC bullshit and tesla's whole thing). emblem-man posted... Best case is probably if this forces China to build companies in countries like Mexico and then ship them to the US from Mexico in order to avoid the tariffs. This at least allows some of these manufacturing businesses to not be based in China How does that improve anything? Regardless, I've heard that the US is thinking of ways to block China from going the Mexico route, though I'm not sure if that runs afoul of NAFTA (or whatever the fuck dumb trump renamed it). --- https://imgur.com/a/FU9H8 - https://i.imgur.com/ZkQRDsR.png - https://i.imgur.com/2x2gtgP.jpg <cite>1337toothbrush posted [p:980396294] in U.S. to An... [t:80767460]...</cite> <quote>Antifar posted... </cite><quote>The most likely outcome of this feels like Americans buying gas-powered vehicles instead</quote>Absolutely, since none of the other countries have invested as much in electric vehicles. American car companies in particular have almost seemed to sabotage efforts by making them as expensive and unappealing as possible (like introducing paid DLC bullshit and tesla's whole thing). emblem-man posted... </cite><quote>Best case is probably if this forces China to build companies in countries like Mexico and then ship them to the US from Mexico in order to avoid the tariffs. This at least allows some of these manufacturing businesses to not be based in China</quote>How does that improve anything? Regardless, I've heard that the US is thinking of ways to block China from going the Mexico route, though I'm not sure if that runs afoul of NAFTA (or whatever the fuck dumb trump renamed it). --- https://imgur.com/a/FU9H8 - https://i.imgur.com/ZkQRDsR.png - https://i.imgur.com/2x2gtgP.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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