U.S. Rejects Tesla Bid For Tariff Exemption for Autopilot 'Brain'

[Brian W + 78]

U..S. trade officials rejected Tesla Inc’s bid for relief from President Donald Trump’s 25-percent tariffs on the Chinese-made Autopilot “brain” of its Model 3 and other electric vehicles, one of more than 1,000 product denials linked to China’s industrial development plans.

According to documents filed by the U.S. Trade Representative’s office, exclusion requests from Tesla and others for Chinese-made products from aircraft parts to biotechnology instruments were denied because they were deemed “strategically important” to the “Made in China 2025” program.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-tesla/u-s-rejects-bid-by-tesla-for-tariff-exemption-for-model-3-brain-idUKKCN1S91ZX?rpc=401&