• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Tarrifs means they add tax on specific things to discourage people from buying it. It’s used on foreign goods to make them more expensive than local stuff.

    If Chinas EVs are cheaper than US one’s, american companies could go out of business and China could take control of the EV market. The US will basically add a tax to Chinese EVs so US one’s remain competitively priced in comparison

    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOPM
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      17 days ago

      Thank you for the write up and I say this not against you but that is a pretty fucked up mindset.

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        16 days ago

        A country putting tariffs on imports doesn’t necessarily mean it’s being anti-competitive, or anything nefarious.

        In this example, the argument generally goes that China’s EV market is so cheap, compared to the US’s, because the Chinese government subsidizes it, I.E. gives EV makers free money so they can lower costs or expand infrastructure, which in turn leads to lower prices. Thus, a US tarrif is just attempting to re-level the playing field. How much truth there is to this, I don’t really know.

        And this, in TURN, doesn’t necessarily mean that China is being anti-competitive either. There’s nothing wrong with them saying “Having a robust EV infrastructure is good for our country, and we think it’s going to be very important for our future, so we’re going to invest heavily into that.”

      • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        Not at all. It’s necessary to protect your own industry.

        If Canada didn’t impose tariffs on US dairy, Canadian dairy farmers couldn’t afford to compete against US subsidized Dairy. And it’s quite important for a nation to maintain its own food production.

        • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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          16 days ago

          Not at all. It’s necessary to protect your own industry.

          But mostly the tariffs are there to protect the capitalist class. When globalism hurts workers and offshores our jobs our politicians do nothing, but when profits are threatened they act swiftly.

          • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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            16 days ago

            No. Mostly they’re put in place to protect the domestic industry from being run out of business from cheap exports.