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      08-07-2018, 01:11 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by evanevery View Post
The article states the Chinese Tariff is actually 40% (not 25%)...

BMW is the largest exporter of cars made in the USA. (Not Chevy, Ford, or Dodge...)

So the US wants to tax BMW cars 25% as we import them and then the Chinese want to tax BMW cars 40% as we export them.

BMW is taking it up the A$$ both coming and going. BMW can't win here. I wonder how all the Trump voters in Spartanburg are feeling right now? Probably a lot like the folks at Harley Davidson (and Chevy, and Ford)...
you're assuming BMW/Harley plant workers and their friends/family/neighbors and people who get direct and indirect economic benefits of these plants understand how to crunch numbers you just crunched.
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