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US manufacturers can get within 20% cost difference which tariffs can ameliorate. That's fine. A few extra environmental and labor protections won't break everything. TSMC managed it.

But right now it's... 100% or 200%, or infinity since they simply have no models for some form factors. That's just rank incompetence.

Isn’t most of the manufacturing already done in countries with far cheaper labor costs? It seems like a design problem, to me.

The big 3 don't outsource to anywhere much cheaper than Canada and Mexico for most of the stuff they sell here.

Mexico is a lot cheaper though, no?

Labor costs are a fraction of the value of a vehicle, they can't explain vehicles costing over twice or thrice as much as overseas competitors.

> Labor is very expensive here

Sandy Munro said labor counts 10%~15% of the cost. It's the labor efficiency that matters.

Energy costs are generally lower in the US and it almost entirely balances out.

He means "treat workers like slaves, deny basic human rights, etc." if I'm not mistaken.