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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by panpanna on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:03PM (#20084665)
Well, how much does US tax european cars?

Agree about the 49% thing, and it's not limited to car factories.

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by coolspot on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:44PM (#20086684)
> Currently, vehicles shipped from Europe to the US face a low 2.5% tariff. Meanwhile, cars built in America face a 10% tariff when they're shipped to the European Union.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/24/news/car-auto-tariffs-us-ge...

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by AstralStorm on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:11PM (#20088011)
Most of this tax is bypassed by exporting cars as parts and assembly in EU though, for American brands...
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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by panpanna on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:15PM (#20088882)
Is that allowed by EU?

US have several laws to protect against just that.

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