Elon Musk’s Tesla is waving a pink flag, warning that Donald Trump’s commerce warfare dangers dooming US electrical car makers, triggering job losses, and hurting the financial system.

In an unsigned letter to the US Commerce Consultant (USTR), Tesla cautioned that Trump’s tariffs may enhance prices of producing EVs within the US and forecast that any retaliatory tariffs from different nations may spike prices of exports.

“Tesla helps a strong and thorough course of” to “tackle unfair commerce practices,” however solely these “which, within the course of, don’t inadvertently hurt US corporations,” the letter stated.

The carmaker really helpful that the USTR—in its ongoing evaluate of unfair commerce practices and investigation into harms of non-reciprocal commerce agreements—”take into account the downstream impacts of sure proposed actions taken to deal with unfair commerce practices.”

In response to Tesla, the present course of to deal with unfair commerce threatens to hurt its greater than 70,000 workers, and extra broadly may set off job losses and income dips within the US auto trade. It may additionally disrupt provide chains, as Tesla claims that even its greatest efforts show it might be “unimaginable” to supply all elements from the US at present.

“Even with aggressive localization of the provision chain, sure elements and parts are troublesome or unimaginable to supply inside the USA,” the letter stated, asking the USTR to “consider home provide chain limitations.”

If left unchanged, the method may make the US much less aggressive in international auto markets, Tesla warned, recommending that the “USTR ought to examine methods to keep away from these pitfalls in future actions.”

Shifting ahead, Tesla recommends that the USTR “have in mind” how the commerce warfare may damage US exporters, as “US exporters are inherently uncovered to disproportionate impacts when different nations reply to US commerce actions.”