[pavon]

Cars, and EVs in particular have strong protectionist laws in the US that make it more expensive to import vehicles than to build them locally. There are a few other sectors like semiconductor fabs where we have started to introduce protectionist policies but I haven't seen any movement to expand those types of policies to most other manufacturing sectors.

[chii]

protectionist policies hurt the end consumer more than they protect the workers.

It's already bad to have any sector that is protected from competition (foreign or domestic), why look to expand it?

[supertrope]

That's that magic of concentrated benefits and diffuse harms. The inverse is manufacturing workers who suffer concentrated harms from cheaper foreign competition and everyone else enjoys the slight benefit of cheaper TVs.