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You can bribe officials in Vietnam/Mexico. So they'll be your country of "final assembly".
by csomar 2y ago
You can bribe officials in Vietnam/Mexico. So they'll be your country of "final assembly".
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI doubt the Americans will let them do that so easily.
- phil21 2y agoThey already are. Just one tiny well-explained example, although it's utterly rampant: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/1197961495/the-trade-fraud-detective https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/1197961495/the-trade-fraud-de... No bribery required though, at least in most cases.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoThey tried stockpiling aluminum in Mexico during the Trump ban and that was shutdown quickly. I guess they just have to be more convoluted about it. I wonder if Trump will do something like “tariff China and any country that doesn’t tariff China itself (transitive)”, but it feels like it might be futile to do that.
- torginus 2y agoThe alternative is having empty shelves in stores.
- tzs 2y agoSo they will have to bribe officials in Vietnam or Mexico and bribe officials in the US.
- flyingpenguin 2y agoA quick google search of "BYD Mexico" tells me it is already starting.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoBYD can build cars in Mexico, they already build buses in SoCal, that’s not an issue. The question is if tariffs are going to apply just to final assembly and will they be easy to avoid by assembling elsewhere.