Tesla told the Trump administration that its ongoing tariff war could make it more expensive for the electric car company to build vehicles in the U.S. “Trade actions should not (and need not) conflict with objectives to further increase and support domestic manufacturing,

“It’s a polite way to say that the bipolar tariff regime is screwing over Tesla,” a person familiar with the sending of the letter told the Financial Times. “It is unsigned because nobody at the company wants to be fired for sending it.”