The Chinese have wasted no time in calling out the new tariffs as in violation of WTO rules, making all the obvious (& true) points that this won't really bother the Chinese producers who have their own consumers & the rest of the world to sell their cars to, but mainly hurt FSoA consumers who have to pay more for the locally made dogshit.  They also point out the FSoA subsidizes EVs here at least as much if not more than they do, and the real problem is just that they can't compete.

The other point they make is that this is a "political move" to help the Dems in an election year, except I don't see how it heps whe inflation is killing consumers purchasing power, keeping affordable EVs off the market here helps so much.  About the only people it helps are Auto workers, who see this as a way to protect their jobs.  Except the UAW is already staunchly Democratic and you're not going to get any extra votes.  It's also pretty much bullshit that it protects their jobs, because as I mentioned previously, they will lose jobs anyhow because the cars they are building are too expensive for most people to buy.

So, we'll see how long the mega-tariff strategy works.  I doubt it will help Tesla sell many more of their overpriced dogshit, and Muskrat has petty much given up on the sales model and wants to turn Tesla into a RoboTaxi service anyhow.  GM & Ford have decided they will just go back to selling gas guzzling SUVs & Pickups, which are doing just fine since there's still plenty of gas at the pumps.  So lots of Greenwashing about Hydrogen cars and renewable electrification projects, but same old same old in the transportation industry in the FSoA, Land of the free and home of the Happy Motorist.  So it goes.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202405/1312126.shtml

US reported tariffs of Chinese EV to backfire: experts

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