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PREVEW: BYD: #MEXICO: Conversation with colleague Professor Evan Ellis of the Army War College re BYD looking to build a plant in Mexico to work around the tariffs imposed on the heavily subsidized and dumped China EV. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVEW: BYD: #MEXICO: Conversation with colleague Professor Evan Ellis of the Army War College re BYD looking to build a plant in Mexico to work around the tariffs imposed on the heavily subsidized and dumped China EV. More later.

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0:00.0

Hi this is Hugh here from the Imperfect's podcast where we chat to well known people whose lives seem perfect from the outside

0:06.0

but through our discussions they share the vulnerabilities and imperfections that make them who they are.

0:11.0

We chat to people like Gary Barlow, Elizabeth Day and my cricketing

0:14.4

hero, Pat Cummins. I reckon the hardest time in my life easily. I can remember that for those two weeks. Like, I don't

0:20.1

want to be going to play in front of millions of people and everything gets picked

0:23.2

apart. I just want to be the kid who's sitting there with mom and dad.

0:26.8

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0:30.2

This is John Bachelor, conversation with Professor Avignellis of the U.S. Army War College.

0:35.4

About Mexico, the Mexico election is critical, of course, the new candidate, the new president

0:41.8

likely to be the candidate Shinebaum.

0:44.8

There is an immediate challenge.

0:47.3

BYD, the Chinese EV company looking to dump its subsidized products on North America and South America and Africa, Europe.

0:56.0

Is looking to avoid the tariffs that President Biden has visited upon BYD because of their sinister practices of dumping.

1:05.0

However, the work around is to build a plant in Mexico and promise there won't be leakage into the US.

1:14.8

Here's Professor Evan Ellis commenting on this

1:17.8

and what is to be done, especially in the USMCA.

1:21.6

All of this is a challenge and a battle ahead.

1:25.8

B.Y. D. in Central America. Close. Close to B.Y.D. in North America, but not yet. More of this later.

1:37.0

It is, John. It's a deepening battle. I would say it's a battle that's being joined right now.

1:42.0

There are basically domestic content provisions

1:45.4

within USMCA that are actually thanks to negotiations during the Trump administration

1:50.1

stronger and higher than they were under NAFTA. But having said that, the question is, you know, how does one prevent essentially the

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