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I don't think it's just about tariffs, BMW and MB have been exporting cars from Germany to US for a LONG time, if the tariffs are reciprocated I am sure it's no

I don't think it's just about tariffs, BMW and MB have been exporting cars from Germany to US for a LONG time, if the tariffs are reciprocated I am sure it's not that a big deal to just pay them. I think it's more about Tesla wanting to capture German manufacturing know how and skilled auto labor to improve Tesla's products.

zamfi 7y ago
Surprisingly, the tariffs aren’t equal: 10% on EU imports, 2.5% on US imports. It’s not a ton, but it’s not nothing. Why not just hire Germans, then? Frankly, Musk empirically isn’t the type to list on experts in manufacturing — he ignored them entirely when trying to fully automate the Model 3 production line. So your hypothesis strikes me as unlikely. Doing it to spite the German automakers, though, that I’d believe!