When it comes to cars, raising the import tariff would mean nothing for Chinese car manufacturers. They're notoriously cheap cars that skip on safety and many other features which is why they export very little. When they do, it's to emerging countries because customers from where all the american/european and JP/KR cars are freely available would just buy an older model rather than a Chinese car if they can't afford brand new pricetags. Their clients are mostly middle east, poorer asian countries and I suspect more exports would be coming to African countries in the near future.
There's a reason why there's so many crazy accident videos caught by CCTV in China, and it's not only because of bad asian/chinese syndrome. Plenty of times where a car/truck is charging straight through a building I feel like this isn't driving failure but that the gas pedal/breaks or something is failing with the car.
As for Elon Musk and Tesla, their cars are pretty expensive I can see why they would be struggling with the market especially with the tariff.
Quote (cambovenzi @ Apr 7 2018 05:14pm)
i already explained to you a key part of the picture via pm.
china is not one person. protectionist tariffs may benefit some people at the expense of others.
Their government choosing tobenefit some industries at the expense of the well being of the masses there is not a good reason to copy them.
Governments are more than capable of enacting bad policies. The fact that the Chinese government did something does not make it inherently good or smart.
Yep, they're protecting their car industry as they grow and catch up to modern standards in car manufacturing, I'm sure their aim is to compete worldwide in the future.
This post was edited by Helloween7 on Apr 7 2018 03:21pm