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President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Can someone explain to me how tariffs help us? Couldn’t I buy a Chinese EV cheaper if there were no tariffs.?

[–] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah but they dont want you to buy Chinese EVs, this essentially pushes non-chinese EVs (so US-made or ones from Europe)

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