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Trump Welcomes China to Build Cars in US in Departure From Biden
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Former President Donald Trump has reiterated an openness for Chinese automakers to build cars in the US as a way to boost the economy, signaling a potentially different approach from a Biden administration that has sought to keep out vehicles with links to the country.
“Right now as we speak, large factories just are being built across the border in Mexico” by China to make cars to sell in the US, Trump said in an address at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday. “Those plants are going to be built in the United States and our people are going to man those plants,” he said, adding that he would otherwise slap tariffs as high as 200% on each car to prevent them from entering the country.