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Tesla is building the cars in China that they sell in China, and selling them for a profit. That’s perfectly fine, China is not worried about protecting their EV industry from Chinese workers building Chinese Teslas.

If China was building the cars in the USA that they wanted to sell in the USA, and selling them at a profit, they wouldn’t be looking at 50% tariff either.

The issue is only if/when EVs made in Mexico by Chinese workers living in Mexico are being dumped into the US market below cost in an attempt to destabilize the US auto market, and China thinks they can hide behind the USMCA free trade agreement to do it all tariff free.