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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
It was standing at 25% for a while. However, China had made a multilateral agreement that tariffs on all auto imports (all countries) would drop to 15% in July 2018. When July came it went down to 15% for everyone except us. We went up to 40%. 
  
 (In other words, the EU has been selling at 15% tariffs these past 5 months when we were 'negotiating'.)

gpt
Right. But wasnt pressure from us the catalyst for the move from 25 in the first place?