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I don't know how if it's tariffs or something else, but the US has been preventing importing EVs from China for a long time. You cannot not notice all the Chinese EVs on the roads when traveling overseas. I always wondered why those cars don't make it to the US.

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It's tariffs. The US has a 100% tariff on Chinese EV already since 2024.

The US auto industry is protected via tariffs. It would implode if those were lifted.

To be fair, the US auto industry has been in various states of mid-implosion since the 80s, and has only barely had a few years here and there (mostly just ford really) of NOT imploding.

Buying domestic has been a sucker's game in the US since at least Reagan. Occasionally a domestic vehicle might be cheap, but it hasn't been a "good deal" in my lifetime.

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