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"Tariff engineering" is when a company tweaks a product to get a lower tariff rate. The Subaru BRAT of the 1980s got around the 25% "chicken tax" on US truck imports by adding jump seats in the back to qualify as passenger cars. Some more examples: 1/

You might’ve thought the US auto market was free and open with a 2.5% import tax and more than half of car sales coming from foreign brands. But it’s really one of the most protected and subsidized industries in the world: - $80 billion federal bailout - $17 billion in subsidies…

Having Chinese automakers set up plants in the US could be a smart solution that would allow US consumers to have cheaper, innovative Chinese EVs while keeping jobs in the US. This is what happened with Japanese automakers. But there’s one thorny problem: auto parts. 1/ 🧵

“Japan after World War II famously protected its own nascent auto market. After the war, the Japanese government carefully restricted foreign currency allocations to imported vehicles, which were seen as a waste of scarce foreign currency reserves.” 1/

Will Biden's tariffs give the US auto industry time to catch up? Or will the US become the Galapagos of the car world? Japan and Korea protected their auto industries. But they knew they would soon face global competition. My latest High Capacity piece: www.high-capacity.co…