Protectionism isn't just tariffs
This is exactly the problem the US automotive industry has created for itself.
By creating uniquely USA standards for vehicles in the 1960s and 70s they thought they were making a substantial import barrier by stealth (No WTO breaches) but what they were really doing was making themselves a captive market they could be lazy in, whilst simultaneously erecting a massive barrier to _exporting_ vehicles - noone would buy the overpriced, thirsty, badly built American products that were being foisted on them when those inscrutable folk from the east had already demonstrated it didn't have to be that way and in the process had forced all the other car makers around the world to up their game in order to survive. These days people would rather have a Skoda than a Chevrolet
Biting the hand that feeds IT
