China Just Found A Way Around Europe's Car Tariffs

Описание: China exported over 7 million cars in nine months. Europe answered with tariffs and a hybrid cap, so Chinese brands now build inside Europe: Leapmotor in Spain, BYD in Hungary, Chery in Barcelona. Japan played this exact game 40 years ago.

Inside: China's sales slump at home, the 2024 EU tariffs and the hybrid loophole, the new 350,000 hybrid cap, Leapmotor in Spain, BYD in Hungary, Chery in Barcelona, why Europe's half-empty plants say yes, how Japan beat the 1981 quota with factories, and the new Made in Europe rules.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Europe's wall, China's factories
1:14 China's problem at home
3:14 The wall and the hybrid loophole
5:12 The factory passport
5:47 BYD in Hungary
6:41 Chery, Magna, SAIC and Geely
7:38 Why Europe says yes
9:19 Chinese cars are already selling
10:14 Japan did it first
11:45 Europe's counter move
13:10 Brazil, Mexico, Canada and the US
14:16 Who is winning?

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Narration uses an AI-cloned voice. Figures: CAAM, CPCA, ACEA, Dataforce, SMMT, European Commission, as of Oct 20, 2026. Plant sales and the local-assembly exemption are reports, not confirmed.

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