Georgia Howe
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And the other thing with the Chinese cars is there's no unions.
So when they're building cars, their costs are dramatically less.
And that's why getting parts and pieces and components from other countries and bringing them here can be a problem because it literally impacts our economy.
Well, for a while, Canada was actually on board.
They had 100% tariff on all Chinese cars, just like we do here in the U.S.
Recently, I guess it's more political and a little gamesmanship.
Canada is going to let 49,000 cars into the U.S., which also opens up some interesting things because those cars won't be allowed into the U.S.,
So you could buy them in Canada, but you can't own them here in the U.S.
And that also goes through with Mexico.
They're selling Chinese cars there today.
You can drive them across just as a guest and visiting, but you can't own them here in the U.S.
You can't register them within the states.
So what President Trump has done is left the tariff in place.
And so if you want to build cars here in North America, great.
Not all the car brands like that, by the way.
There are many car brands that are pushing against that because the Japanese and the Koreans have invested heavily here in the U.S., mostly Hyundai Corporation.
They've got a steel plant they're putting in outside of New Orleans.
You've got plants that, I was just at the Savannah plant for Hyundai, huge facility.
And they use some Chinese components,