[infecto]

This sounds like a massive conspiracy if I have ever heard one. Evidence would be helpful.

Foreign markets are often very different and those vehicles don't pass safety in the US. My favorite was the death traps that Toyota Mexico made up until a couple years ago. Brand new vehicle but absolute death trap.

[reverius42]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

> The Chicken tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks (and originally on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy) imposed in 1964 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.

> Eventually, the tariffs on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy were lifted,[4] but since 1964 this form of protectionism has remained in place to give US domestic automakers an advantage over imported competitors.

[infecto]

Thanks for sharing, very interesting! Also super fascinating that it has largely been left untouched since then. I was thinking purely from a safety standard regulation as I know many don't pass US standards.

[Havoc]

Not OP but BYD cars are being kept out via policy so don’t think it’s that far fetched. Certainly not conspiracy territory

https://www.vox.com/climate/2024/3/4/24087919/biden-tariff-c...

[infecto]

Those are not "trumped" up reasons those. That is an explicit ban that the US makes.

[olalonde]

It doesn't require a conspiracy to be the case, simply a bit of "safety" lobbying by domestic manufacturers. Lobbying for regulations that favor and protect market incumbents happens all the time. I'd go as far to say that it's the primary source of regulations.

[infecto]

The chicken tariff posted above makes total sense. Your reaching into safety without evidence sounds like a conspiracy.