U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicle - Considering rates of 100%

So basically American cars are 2x overpriced rn

Big 3 copium as usual.

Eventually they'll do what Japense OEMs did and open factories in the USA.

How about American companies just learn to compete? The same bullshit is why we can't get a fucking normal sized truck in this country.

They aren't sweeping Chinese cars under the road here as much as they are sweeping an actually affordable, practical EV option that could easily win the mass market and shift the status quo away from ICE engine vehicles at scale.

Bigger problem is, that while blocking the Chinese options, they won't give us a similar option at that same affordable cost.

Ah, the free* market at work

Read as: The only way they can compete with Chinese vehicles is 100% tariff

i wouldnt hate this so much if america produced quality automobiles. but we dont. so watch people pay double for something that will last twice as long.

even at equal pricing, they just push out better quality than we can seem to muster

Great news after Tesla cancelled it's plans for an entry model. Green for me not for thee.

Blatantly anti-competitive practices. We don't have a free market in the US. Shit is expensive so the wealthy can continue to profit at record levels while citizens pay the price. Why try to compete when you can protect the wealthy and make your country suffer?

Free market for thee, but not for mee.

I don't actually mind the US protecting their economy from a predatory one that is more powerful - but I'd like USians to remember this when their politicians argue for war against 3rd world countries that want to protect their economies from the US.

Jesus Christ he's actually trying to lose this election.

Fucking cowards

Anti climate move

Still worth it.

Hopefully someone can tell me why this wont work, but what if they Chinese mfg did a Tesla and sold cars online and then shipped them over as "Sold" vehicles. I would do something like this out of spite, but if there are thousands of orders the cost of shipping can greatly be reduced over one or two "special orders" from China.

Wonder what the next Chinese thing to be targeted by the government will be. Not like there's anything pressing or concerning to deal with at home, no no no, we need to focus our time and resources into banning anything related to China. It's not like there's any growing fascist threats in America, or gigantic global catastrophes slowly unfolding in front of us, or countries committing horrific atrocities with American weapons and money or anything. It's not like women don't have rights and children aren't dying in labor because the state is forcing them to give birth or anything.

Nope. Need to ban anything and everything related to China because... They're going to spy on Americans' very well hidden and private social media... and their cars... there's totally no way American companies would spy on peoples cars or their social media...