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Trump, accepting Republican presidential nomination, vows high tariffs on China-made cars
- Party convention ends with Trump vowing ‘a tariff of around 100 to 200 per cent on each car, and they will be unsellable in the US’
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Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on car imports, including from China, in his pledge to boost the auto manufacturing sector in the United States as he accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination on Thursday night.
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“Right now as we speak, large factories are being built across the border in Mexico … They are being built by China to make cars and to sell them into our country [with] no tax or anything,” he said as the crowd jeered.
“We’re going to bring back car manufacturing and we’re going to bring it back fast.
“They are building some of the largest auto plants anywhere in the world,” he said, calling instead for factories to be built in the US and for Americans to “man those plants”.
“And if they don’t agree with us we will put a tariff of around 100 to 200 per cent on each car, and they will be unsellable in the US.”
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