The American electric car manufacturer Tesla – with the world's richest man Elon Musk as founder and CEO – has stopped taking orders for Model S and Model X in China in the wake of the trade war between the US and China. Both Tesla models are imported to the Chinese market from the US.
In the trade war raging between Beijing and Washington, China went out with a hike in tariffs on goods from the US to 125 percent on Friday, after the Trump administration raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 145 percent earlier in the week.
Tesla produces Model 3 and Model Y in a factory in Shanghai, China, for the Asian market including China. Model S and Model X are manufactured in Fremont, California, and they only make up a fraction of the sales Tesla had in China last year.
