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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's not a case of being "stuck" per se. It's just not cost effective to move production on this kind of stuff overseas. Shipping goes by volume, and cars have an absolutely atrocious cost to volume ratio (think about how many dollars worth of iPhones you could stuff into the space occupied by a single car). It makes a lot more sense to build them where you plan to sell them (broadly speaking). That's why a lot of car manufacturing still happens in countries like the US, Canada, and the UK.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not disagreeing, but isn't there also protectionist incentives to at least assembly them in the US too? Benn a while since I remember reading it, but seem to remember there are many tarrifs, tax incentives, and etc that make it a complex situation for auto makers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I believe you are very likely correct about that, but I wouldn't want to say for sure without doing some digging.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Chicken tax is an example.

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