alt Hacker NewsYou can't assemble a bunch of imported parts and say it's a NAFTA car. 75% of the content of the vehicle has to come from North America. There are other limits on the minimum labour cost and steel/aluminum content.
So no, they are secretly planning to relabel a Chinese car. Nothing works like that.
You can do a lot of flexible accounting to attain that 75% percentage. The value of the Mexican parts are exaggerated whilst the Chinese parts are valued far below cost.