Comment by mytailorisrich

China has many tariffs and non-tariffs restrictions. They are targeted as tariffs tend to be (well...).

For instance, tariffs on cars vary from 25% to 47%. It is quite the status symbol to drive an imported car.

Their policy has always been to develop their own car industry, so foreign manufacturers had to set up factories in the country but even that could not be fully foreign-owned and had to be through a joint-venture with a local manufacturer. I believe Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai (opened in 2019) was the first fully foreign-owned car factory they allowed.