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by ch4s3 1163 days ago
Rivian didn't exist, and Toyota didn't enter the US market until a year after the tariff and didn't build trucks for the US market then. Sure GM builds trucks too and benefits, but it was basically designed as a giveaway to Ford while keeping VW light trucks out of the US market in retaliation for Germany tariffs on chicken.

> No American truck buyer wants a Mitsubishi or Hyundai truck. Full stop.

Then why maintain a tariff from 1964 designed by the Johnson administration?

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> Then why maintain a tariff from 1964 designed by the Johnson administration?

No clue, but seems pretty bipartisan. Maybe “National Security” or whatever excuse .gov comes up with…