How is the unit for domestic component content defined? Is a screw a component in the same way a windshield is? Is it by weight? By cost?
Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
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Re: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
#32Used cars are ALSO exempt. And, all used goods bought at secondhand stores are tariff-exempt as well. And so is FB marketplace, Craigslist, and others. My protest is meager, but effective for us - we just will buy used and use 'Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle' where we can. EnEnough of us doing that will slow and hamper the economy (read: rich peoples' money).
Are you saying if I import a used car, I don't have to pay tariffs? Factory delivery programs would become a lot more popular. Or are you just saying that if I buy a car that's already in the US and has already had any import tariffs due at time of import paid, I won't have to pay them again? That's a lot less interesting.
Yes - my question exactly.
I was strongly considering importing a 25-year-old kei truck from Japan before the tariffs were announced.
Re: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
#33It’s funny cybertruck doesn’t make the cut, unfortunately nobody buys those so it’s irrelevant.
Re: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
#34I don't know if it's the same people but many of the comments here seem the opposite of the comments on EUs rules where people say they're targeting specific companies and comments say "no, the rules are such than all companies over a certain size are covered".
If the rule is 85% domestic than any company can do it.
I'm not saying the tariffs are good. Only that their point is to get things made domesticly
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Nonsense. Does anyone seriously think the military is going to defy SCOTUS at the end of the four years? Does anyone seriously think Jan 6th, bad as it was, was going to end the republic[0]? Such hyperbole is dangerous at best when people take it seriously. [0] Especially because what it tells our enemies. Iran, take out just this one specific building, and America is done for!
Oh I thought the military takes orders from the Command-in-Chief. Silly me. Maybe Alito and Thomas can tell the Joint Chiefs to provide protection to the Proud Boys to storm the Capitol in 2028.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nonsense. Does anyone seriously think the military is going to defy SCOTUS at the end of the four years? Does anyone seriously think Jan 6th, bad as it was, was going to end the republic[0]? Such hyperbole is dangerous at best when people take it seriously. [0] Especially because what it tells our enemies. Iran, take out just this one specific building, and America is done for!
What did the military do on Jan 6? They stood back and did nothing. That wasn’t an actual coup because some Capitol Police had the balls to do their job and Vice President Pence is a patriot. I’m sure the next time around anyone “untrustworthy” in the police force will have been removed, and the national Guard in surrounding states will have routine training in Alaska.
> They stood back and did nothing
There's no reason to have a full allergic reaction to a mosquito bite.
Re: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
#37The CEO of Ford is very critical of Trump. But Ford can probably get the USA content for gas-powered Mustangs up from 80% to 85%. The electric version is made in Mexico, but once Ford's Blue Oval City plant in Tennessee comes up in 2027, that will move to the US. Of course, who knows where Trump will be by then.
How long do you think that 5% will take them?
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#38Sure it's 85% now, but what about tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
This administration's policy decisions aren't particularly stable.
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#39I am kind of surprised that the collection of people at the tops of all the big companies commanding so many billions, don't have some sort of behind the scenes levers they can pull to make him squeal like a pig, elected office or no. I can only assume they're all actually largely ok with it. I would not have imagined that they just never thought about things like that in general and now have actually no idea what to…
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Re: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
#40Used cars are ALSO exempt. And, all used goods bought at secondhand stores are tariff-exempt as well. And so is FB marketplace, Craigslist, and others. My protest is meager, but effective for us - we just will buy used and use 'Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle' where we can. EnEnough of us doing that will slow and hamper the economy (read: rich peoples' money).
That suggests an ecosystem may appear around making new goods "used" enough to meet some legal definition.
If you're importing it it doesn't matter it's condition other than it's worth less so the tariff would be less. What they mean is if you buy goods that are already here there's no tariff, but they will also go up in price too as the new item goes up.