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Re:Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel... by tacogordito on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:17PM (#17257932)
A more direct example of a good faith violation is China putting a 25% tariff on American imported automobiles or the EU having a 10% tariff on them. Free trade doesn't exist in its purest form.
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Re:Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel... by vkou on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:53PM (#17258965)
They are just trying to bootstrap their auto sector. China's a couple of decades late in development, so they need to do these kinds of things.

The United States has done the same thing, when it was behind in industrialization to the United Kingdom. Heavy tariffs on foreign goods, in order to prop up its own domestic sector.

Once they get their auto industry together, to the same level of quality as US manufacturers, they won't need that tariff.

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Re:Billions in U.S. solar projects shelved after Trump panel... by mkirklions on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:07PM (#17258505)
Btw I believe that drove the demand for luxury american cars up.
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