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OOPS: Trump Trade War Has U.S. Automakers Looking to Move Manufacturing to China, Per WSJ
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American automakers would get eaten alive in China. They've got no hope of competing. Much safer to stick to Detroit.
They already did. That's been the big problem for years. Legacy auto made their money in the largest car market on the planet. Then people in China stopped buying them.
Just one reason why Chinese EVs are illegal in USA. Because Americans would buy them and Ford and GM would already have to have been bailed out.
I think it's not so much about going after the China market, but about cheaper approach to going after the worldwide market (except US). Going through US means taking huge hit on import tariffs on material and the pissing contest causes a lot of retaliatory tariffs further making things rough on the way into other countries. Since it keeps on changing, impossible to realistically plan around.
So the US market suffers as jobs exit and prices go up, but the prices were going to go up either way. The world except US is more preserved.
Also, to the extent that they could compete with China, this certainly wouldn't hurt.