UAW Launches Largest Organizing Drive in Modern American History
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UAW Launches Largest Organizing Drive in Modern American History
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#3Why do American unions never demand higher import tariffs?
Currently, the US only imposes a tariff of 2.5% on European passenger cars and car parts, while the EU taxes American cars with 10%.
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#4Why do American unions never demand higher import tariffs? Currently, the US only imposes a tariff of 2.5% on European passenger cars and car parts, while the EU taxes American cars with 10%.
Who do you think ends up paying for the higher tariffs?
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#5Why do American unions never demand higher import tariffs? Currently, the US only imposes a tariff of 2.5% on European passenger cars and car parts, while the EU taxes American cars with 10%.
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#6Why do American unions never demand higher import tariffs? Currently, the US only imposes a tariff of 2.5% on European passenger cars and car parts, while the EU taxes American cars with 10%.
Who do you think ends up paying for the higher tariffs?
If people don’t buy foreign cars because they are too expensive, then no one. For the union there’s no intrinsic downside to such a protectionist action.
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#7Why do American unions never demand higher import tariffs? Currently, the US only imposes a tariff of 2.5% on European passenger cars and car parts, while the EU taxes American cars with 10%.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who do you think ends up paying for the higher tariffs?
If people don’t buy foreign cars because they are too expensive, then no one. For the union there’s no intrinsic downside to such a protectionist action.
Higher tariffs leads to less overall supply in the domestic market which leads to higher prices for consumers. Higher prices for consumers leads to grumpy consumers at the people who supported the tariff in the first place.
Moreover, longer term tariffs leads to domestic suppliers not being as efficient and hence fall behind international competition. Thus, domestic consumers get garbage cars and become grumpy at the people who supported the tariff in the first place.
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#10Why do American unions never demand higher import tariffs? Currently, the US only imposes a tariff of 2.5% on European passenger cars and car parts, while the EU taxes American cars with 10%.
In the 1980’s they demanded and got import quotas on Japanese automobiles which were outcompeting Detroit.
Supply constraints allowed US automakers to better compete on price without improving their product design, quality, or cost structure, so much of the same effect as a tariff.