Automotive and trade experts say the increased tariffs are a near-term protectionism act that may delay but not stop Chinese EVs from coming to the U.S.
It's not just the elcrric vehicles either our entire auto industry depends on not letting companies that aren't dumb as fuck sell cars here.
If those light kei trucks werent outlawed here it would kill of three separate vehicle markets because they're better work trucks than America's trucks, better commuters than an 8 seat suv being driven by one person and they cost a third of our "cheap" cars
Additional context on why foreign small trucks are not present in the American market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax (25% tariff on foreign light trucks)
It's not just the elcrric vehicles either our entire auto industry depends on not letting companies that aren't dumb as fuck sell cars here.
If those light kei trucks werent outlawed here it would kill of three separate vehicle markets because they're better work trucks than America's trucks, better commuters than an 8 seat suv being driven by one person and they cost a third of our "cheap" cars
weren't?
Additional context on why foreign small trucks are not present in the American market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax (25% tariff on foreign light trucks)
25% extra on a light truck would still be cheaper than the current monstrosities
must also involve certification like how they have to destroy X of the vehicles in crash testing or something
yeah those trucks do exist here. you seem them on occassion and id say they are even becoming a bit more common
I think as long as it's more than 25 years old you can import them
ah, so a chinese ev from 1999? yeah, uh, about that
oh I thought we were talking about kei trucks. my bad
oh i responded but didnt see the context i assumed it was about evs because the messages doesnt show the convo chain i just went off the post title