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Apr 7 2018 03:31pm
Quote (Helloween7 @ Apr 7 2018 03:18pm)
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, 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. They're clients are mostly middle east, poorer asian countries and I suspect more exports would be coming to African countries in the near future.


However, their tariffs certainly help Chinese-based manufacturers, which is of course the intention.


There are American companies which manufacture cars in China. Those would be incentivized to move manufacturing back here. https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/cars-made-in-china. These include Cadillac, Buick, Ford, Volvo, etc.

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Claims to be a libertarian, in favour of massive tariffs

We've got another Trump shill lads
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Apr 7 2018 03:41pm
Quote (dro94 @ Apr 7 2018 03:37pm)
Claims to be a libertarian, in favour of massive tariffs

We've got another Trump shill lads


Reference the 13 colonies after their detachment from England. They had little-to-none internal taxes, very few laws, and the government was funded almost solely through import tariffs.

I like freedom of action amongst the citizenry. Things going on outside of the country, such as foreign manufacturing and military action, is a different matter.

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/edit Oh.. you mean raising our import tariff would mean nothing for their manufacturers. On that I agree with you.

However, their tariffs certainly help Chinese-based manufacturers, which is of course the intention.


Yeah I was about to say something like : Did you actually read the bold? :P

I meant that the angle to "retaliate" in this instance would do absolutely nothing. Have you ever seen a Chinese car in wherever you live?

I'm in agreement with what you typed pre-edit, it's certainly not beneficial for Chinese customers to pay for more repairs and deaths from preventable accident while foreign cars could just be imported in. But the government has chosen to protect their car manufacturer while they open up cars from competition to figure out how to build cars with good technology.

They've been caught trying to steal secrets all the time as well as preventing eletric cars to be sold in China or not giving subsidies in order to try to strong arm car manufacturers in giving their juicy electric car secrets. I mean I see the reasoning, they've got a pretty big population and more and more car coming in the market. Gas emission is a bitch.

Edit: Volvo has been Chinese owned since 2010, TIL.

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Reference the 13 colonies after their detachment from England. They had little-to-none internal taxes, very few laws, and the government was funded almost solely through import tariffs.

I like freedom of action amongst the citizenry. Things going on outside of the country, such as foreign manufacturing and military action, is a different matter.


Freedom of action amongst the citizenry like selling goods to China?
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Apr 7 2018 03:43pm
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Freedom of action amongst the citizenry like selling goods to China?



Which China is currently de-incentivizing by their tariffs. This thread is about reciprocating not instigating.
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Claims to be a libertarian, in favour of massive tariffs

We've got another Trump shill lads


Claims to be educated

Isnt but still posts in PaRD
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Apr 7 2018 07:43pm
the market will adjust accordingly
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Apr 7 2018 07:59pm
Quote (FGdumpster @ 7 Apr 2018 16:39)
Trump institutes "reciprocal tax" program. He says he will tax China at the rate they tax us. Whatever that is.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/12/trump-imports-reciprocal-tax-339127

The mainstream media and previous administration neglected to mention or act on the fact that China has had extensive tariffs for years at no reciprocal cost.

Elon Musk mentioned that Tesla was struggling with Chinese tariffs in which US car manufacturers pay a 25% import tariff while Chinese manufacturers only pay 2.5%.

For all you lovers of mainstream media,the only mainstream sources reporting on this (other than fox) are 'CNN money' and 'USA Today'. But no bias right?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-elon-musks-tweets-on-tariffs-very-interesting

https://i.imgur.com/97DOIVJ.jpg

China understands the value of having the world's manufacturing base, and intends to keep it at any cost.

musk confirmed nativist national-socialist facist like drumpf
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Quote (EndlessSky @ Apr 7 2018 10:46pm)
Claims to be educated

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You don't have to be educated to post about politics or religion, clearly. You're projecting and education offends you.
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