[hnburnsy]

>lower labor cost and government subsidy issues

These are the arguments in favor of tariffs on Chinese autos, I understand they cause a disparity, and yes, IMO they are disproportionate.

[noizejoy]

> IMO they are disproportionate.

Typing the three letters in “IMO” is most certainly easier than doing/documenting complex financial analysis.

[gruez]

The EU might have done a careful calculation with their tarrifs, but the US's tariffs of 100% seems closer to a nice round number they thought sounded good than carefully thought out "proportionate" response to whatever the Chinese governments' subsidies were.

[bee_rider]

Lots of people don’t do the analysis and leave out the IMO, so at least this is more honest.