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Volvo gets US government approval to bypass Chinese connected car ban

Volvo Cars got some welcome news from the US Department of Commerce yesterday. The government has told the Swedish automaker, which is partly owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding, that it may import connected cars into the US, despite a ban on such vehicle software with Chinese links from model year 2027 onward.
Protectionism is nothing new to the US automotive segment; the absence of foreign-built pickup trucks on US roads is still a consequence of 1964’s “chicken tax,” for example. More recently, in a ra …

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Author: Jonathan M. Gitlin

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