Not to mention the fact that Canada is also allowing China to export cars, despite numerous car plants in Canada being unable to stay open after converting to EV production.
To be fair, from a strictly economic perspective, you do want Chinese cars to compete with your domestic car production but you want to ensure fair competition. If China subsidizes its industry then you tariff the imports to protect American production but you want to avoid having too much protectionism without allowing competition or your domestic producers will stop innovating or improving because they're protected from competition. It's a delicate balance.
The problem is that chinks find ways to cheat and scam way faster than we move to counteract them. Your argument is much stronger wrt Europe and Japan, and even then I'm not sure I agree with it.
This is true but we don't need to be so slow on the uptake. We have the capability to be faster and more adaptable than the Chinese. It's time to dust off the old colonizer uniforms and actually start trying. Would help if we could get rid of the infestation in our home countries first ofc.
A year ago, under then US President Joe Biden, the office finalised rules that effectively barred Chinese passenger vehicles due to concerns of data collection and manipulation of vehicles connected to navigation systems.
Those rules remain in place and the Trump administration so far has not signalled that it intends to modify them. Trump has said at times that he would welcome a Chinese carmaker that wants to build vehicles on US soil.
Car import restrictions still hold.
The administration also recently gave the green light for Nvidia H200 and other advanced AI chip exports to China ahead of a meeting scheduled between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in April.
The Commerce Department said in September it planned to issue rules that could restrict or ban Chinese drones and withdrew the proposal on January 9, months after sending it to the White House for review.
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Commerce also said in September it was considering a rule on trucks weighing more than 10,000 pounds from countries like China and other foreign adversaries, after the curbs on passenger vehicles. That rule is currently on hold, sources said.
On the other hand, chips, drones, and trucks have started to flow. Not great.
The problem with this is that the chips are indispensable until US manufacturing can be brought up to speed. I'm not sure that there will be demand for Chinese Trucks, and drones are also mostly Chinese dominated.
K-Trucks and the Toyota Hilux are already very likely to be on the way. I wouldn't be surprised if some even get manufactured in the US. So that's cheap Japanese trucks compared to Chinese. Additionally Totyota is one of the largest employers of American automotive workers, where as the old Big 3 internationalized a long time ago.
This country has such a schizophrenic relationship with China. Madura gets removed partially (supposedly) because the Chinese planted him. TikTok gets taken from them. But when it comes time to protect American companies...
Almost like another country with a great deal of influence screws with them from time to time to show whose boss and doesn't give a shit about what happens to America....
I don't know if this is good policy or bad policy, but it's interesting how Trump just threatened Canada for allowing the import of Chinese cars.
Not to mention the fact that Canada is also allowing China to export cars, despite numerous car plants in Canada being unable to stay open after converting to EV production.
Why is China so pumped about these cars?
To be fair, from a strictly economic perspective, you do want Chinese cars to compete with your domestic car production but you want to ensure fair competition. If China subsidizes its industry then you tariff the imports to protect American production but you want to avoid having too much protectionism without allowing competition or your domestic producers will stop innovating or improving because they're protected from competition. It's a delicate balance.
And they (the CCP) engages in corporate espionage against Western companies because they are the ultimate share holders of every Chinese company.
See Nortel/Huawei
We should of course be doing our own corporate espionage also.
The problem is that chinks find ways to cheat and scam way faster than we move to counteract them. Your argument is much stronger wrt Europe and Japan, and even then I'm not sure I agree with it.
This is true but we don't need to be so slow on the uptake. We have the capability to be faster and more adaptable than the Chinese. It's time to dust off the old colonizer uniforms and actually start trying. Would help if we could get rid of the infestation in our home countries first ofc.
You shouldn't be scared of a little competition. If they are shitcans, no one will buy them.
Chinese electric cars are better than Teslas. The US is owned by the jews. We have bigger problems.
Car import restrictions still hold.
On the other hand, chips, drones, and trucks have started to flow. Not great.
The problem with this is that the chips are indispensable until US manufacturing can be brought up to speed. I'm not sure that there will be demand for Chinese Trucks, and drones are also mostly Chinese dominated.
Yeah, there's absolutely no demand for an affordable truck, what a preposterous idea!
I said Chinese. Not affordable.
K-Trucks and the Toyota Hilux are already very likely to be on the way. I wouldn't be surprised if some even get manufactured in the US. So that's cheap Japanese trucks compared to Chinese. Additionally Totyota is one of the largest employers of American automotive workers, where as the old Big 3 internationalized a long time ago.
This country has such a schizophrenic relationship with China. Madura gets removed partially (supposedly) because the Chinese planted him. TikTok gets taken from them. But when it comes time to protect American companies...
Almost like another country with a great deal of influence screws with them from time to time to show whose boss and doesn't give a shit about what happens to America....