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by bhouston 593 days ago
> ...they may be able to just build a plant in Mexico and take advantage of NAFTA.

If Trump is elected, expect then NAFTA to be changed to exclude competitors to Tesla in some fashion. There is already a lot of expectations that a Trump win will heavily benefit Elon: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/business/economy/elon-mus...
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bluGill 593 days ago
NAFTA doesn't exist anymore. Trump replaced it with a "I can't believe it isn't NAFTA", I doubt he will reopen that again.
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FileSorter 593 days ago
God forbid a US automaker benefit for providing Americans jobs
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_mlbt 593 days ago
Exactly. People are all for globalization until it comes for their specific industry and job. I remember there being a great uproar and gnashing of teeth over the outsourcing of IT jobs to Asia back in the 90s and 00s, yet now there’s something wrong with protecting one of America’s remaining big manufacturing industries.
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