The President announced that the United States will implement a 25 % customs rate on all cars produced abroad from April 2. Donald Trump This Wednesday. “This is the beginning of the American Liberation Day,” said the head of state, who today expected to announce one of the planned policy measures planned next month, while his government faces. scandal About discussing military plans by applying signal messages.
The fees should exacerbate the price of cars in the United States, as about half of the sold vehicles are imported. Most of these vehicles come from producers like Mexico, CanadaSouth Korea, Japan and Germany. node classification Among the best -selling brands in the United States in 2024, there were six Asians in the top ten: Toyota (first), Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, KIA and Subaru. German Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes -Benz and Audi appeared in place 13, 14, 16 and 17, respectively.
Ursula von der Lin, the European Commission President, has already regretted the United States’ decision and announced that the Europeans “will evaluate this announcement, in conjunction with other expected measures for the next few days.”
“Prices are imposed, they are bad for companies and worse for consumers, whether in the United States or the European Union.”
In Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney considered Trump’s announcement a “direct attack” and promised to form a two -billion dollar strategic fund to alleviate the influence on the Canadian car industry if he won April 28 elections. Also Doug Ford, Prime Minister of Ontario, where most Canadian car factories are located, and retaliation. “We will assure us that we will catch the amount of pain as possible in the American people,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
The Americans depend on the imported pieces
“I think our auto sector will flourish as it has not flourished before.”. However, the decision is drawn from manufacturers by surprise, after the Trump administration initially gave the prices of US builders on their cars produced in Canada and Mexico. The prices that have now been announced also apply to American brand cars produced in these and other countries, such as popularity Capacities From Ram and Chevrolet. It will be the most construction company Tesla de Elon MuskThe United States produces all the cars that it sells in the country, followed by Ford, which makes most of its vehicles on the land of the United States.
However, all producers should worsen. The White House later mentioned that the components of imported cars will also be imposed on them, though a month after the imports of the final vehicles and the temporary exemption of the parts that were produced in Mexico and Canada. The postponement will be just a technique and not a prelude to permanent exemption.
Among the cars produced on the American soil, it is not possible to avoid the integration of imported ingredients. CNN contained only two models with 75 % of its American -made components (Tesla Model 3 and Honda Ridgeline) and nothing is higher than this percentage. the Pick up Ford F-150, the most popular car in the country, has 55 % of its imported ingredients.
to New York TimesThe head of the Canadian Automobile Manufacturers Association warns that the entire American auto industry will fail within one week, given the high level of the interdependence between Canadian, Mexican and the United States. Integration is particularly intense among the American government industries in Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario.
“Let’s see much higher prices than cars,” said economist Mary Leesm of the Peterson International Economy Institute. He warned, “Let’s see a lower option. This type of rate decreases dramatically in the working middle layer.” The Automobile Research Center expects an average increase of $ 12,000 in the price of new cars.
Trump sent the announcement of other drawings to April 2, the date on which news is awaiting a set of “mutual definitions” and exacerbating customs rates on a large scale. However, this US President suggested this Wednesday that the new rates may be “more lenient than reciprocating”, and opened the door to relax measures compared to the previously expected.
