https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/14/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-action-to-protect-american-workers-and-businesses-from-chinas-unfair-trade-practices/

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    Domestic producers that don't exist. They think that by doing shit like this manufacturing facilities will spring up out of nowhere. They don't stop to reflect on the fact that the reason china has the capacity it has is because the government built it. But we will never do that here, that would be communism.

    Let's set aside the fact that no competent management team would justify a multi billion dollar business case on the back of a tariff that can just as easily be lifted overnight, depending on how polls in Michigan are doing