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It coming, from BYD and the other new Chinese ev companies

Not to the US. There's currently a 25% tariff on imported Chinese vehicles, and there's a proposal to raise it to 125%.

If you can't beat the competition, stifle them!

BYD is opening a plant in Mexico to avoid tariffs. If that happens we should see BYD cars in the US and Canada by 2030.

They could even open plants in the USA like the Japanese car makers did.

The proposed rule would add a 100% tariff to Chinese cars built in Mexico. Would totally break Trump's USMCA, but...