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.
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.