Since the 1960s America has taxed light trucks being imported. Because America didn’t have to build light trucks to compete internationally they lost the international market on light trucks. Now nobody wants to buy American cars and trucks because they are not as good as what others countries build. So now America has put up high tariffs to make itself even more isolationist, since they can’t compete.
In the South it seems like a lot of people still want to buy American cars and trucks (maybe esp. American trucks), even though I think they’re garbage 😅 Hard to imagine arguing that people don’t want a Ford F-150 where I live, tbh