- On Fox News, Trump said he'd be OK with Chinese car brands making vehicles here for sale.
- However, there is still a 100% tariff on Chinese-made cars, and a ban on cars that use Chinese-developed software and hardware.
- The news has attracted the ire of some politicians, including Michigan senator Elissa Slotkin.
If you’re a Chinese automaker with eyes on the U.S. market, it hasn’t been such a great time for you. What once felt like an inevitable step in the late 2010s has quickly turned into a country protecting its home manufacturing base. Tariffs make importing uncompetitive, while software and hardware bans for anything developed in China make sales infeasible. It's safe to say that U.S.-China relations are pretty frosty, and it wasn't looking like they were going to get better anytime soon.