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US electric car-maker Tesla has filed a lawsuit with the US Court of International Trade in New York, which aims to prevent the Trump administration from collecting tariffs on car parts it imports from China.
The case seeks an order to declare the duties unlawful and a refund with interest on the amounts it has already paid.
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is named as the defendant in the case.
Tesla is challenging the actions he made, arguing that the increased cost of imports would hurt the financial state of the company, the report said.
Tesla in its filing called the tariffs “arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion”.
Founder Elon Musk wants the tariffs cancelled along with a “refund, with interest” of import taxes paid, according to the filing. The company aimed to avoid the 25 percent tariffs on the Chinese-made computer and central display screens used in its Model 3 sedan.
A number of lawsuits are reported to have been filed by carmakers in the past few days in the Court of International Trade. Mercedes-Benz in its filing accused Washington of “prosecution of an unprecedented, unbounded, and unlimited trade war impacting over US$500bn in imports from China”. — Bloomberg.
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