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Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's what the chicken tax is/was. This is just a tax on EVs made by Chinese companies. It's pretty ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, why not? They aren't prohibited, they're just being given a disadvantage compared to American made vehicles being sold in America. A tax for notoriously poor labor standards, we can call it. If they want to use a union shop somewhere in middle America they can avoid that tax altogether.

If I misunderstood you please correct me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's literally in the textbooks as the kind of thing you're not supposed to do. If you keep protecting US companies they will never get better. Prices will never come down.