Brazilian automobile industry executives and labor leaders are growing uneasy about the flood of cheap electric vehicles (EVs) pouring in from China, because the Chinese onslaught is crushing Brazilian manufacturing.
The only defense, according to the auto industry, is higher tariffs on Chinese imports.
Part of the problem is that Brazil kept its tariffs on Chinese imports low, while most other customers for Chinese EVs raised theirs to double digits. Europe slapped a 38-percent tariff on Chinese EVs last July, specifically to deal with Chinese product dumping. President Donald Trump raised U.S. tariffs on Chinese vehicles to 100 percent in April.
Brazil’s tariff on EVs was zero from 2015 to 2024, when it was raised to a modest ten percent. When Chinese
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