During an executive order signing session in the White House today, President Trump announced a major change in tariffs on the auto industry. [Full Executive Order Here]
The 25% import duty applies on top of any preexisting tariff for cars and light trucks. The 25% tariff also applies to imported car parts. The USMCA trade agreement between the U.S. Canada and Mexico still applies.
If the content of a car assembled in Mexico/Canada contains 50 percent component parts from the USA, the 25% tariff only applies to the final value of the imported components. In this example the tariff rate would be 12.5% of the total value.
The tariff applies to all imported cars and light trucks. Approximately half of all cars sold in the USA are currently American made, the other half are import vehicles from mainly Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Canada and Germany.
This is a very big kick in the teeth to Germany. Previously in a long-term strategy to avoid U.S. tariffs, German automakers invested billions in auto assembly plants in Mexico. Ex. the BMW parts were shipped from Germany and the cars assembled in Mexico. Now that investment is worthless as the vehicle will be taxed at a rate of 25% regardless of whether it is assembled in Germany or Mexico.
Ex.2 High end auto Mercedes currently builds SUVs in the USA in order to avoid the previous 25% tariff; however, they still build cars outside the USA and export them into the USA market. This will likely change quickly, and Mercedes will begin building all cars and SUVs in the USA.
From the Executive Order:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this proclamation, all imports of articles specified in Annex I to this proclamation or in any subsequent annex to this proclamation, as set out in a subsequent notice in the Federal Register, shall be subject to a 25 percent tariff with respect to goods entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on April 3, 2025, for automobiles, and on the date specified in the Federal Register for automobile parts, but no later than May 3, 2025, and shall continue in effect, unless such actions are expressly reduced, modified, or terminated. The above ad valorem tariff is in addition to any other duties, fees, exactions, and charges applicable to such imported automobiles and certain automobile parts articles.
(2) For automobiles that qualify for preferential tariff treatment under the USMCA, importers of such automobiles may submit documentation to the Secretary identifying the amount of U.S. content in each model imported into the United States. “U.S. content” refers to the value of the automobile attributable to parts wholly obtained, produced entirely, or substantially transformed in the United States. Thereafter, the Secretary may approve imports of such automobiles to be eligible to apply the ad valorem tariff of 25 percent in clause (1) of this proclamation exclusively to the value of the non-U.S. content of the automobile. The non-U.S. content of the automobile shall be calculated by subtracting the value of the U.S. content in an automobile from the total value of the automobile.
(3) If U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) determines that the declared value of non-U.S. content of an automobile, as described in clause (2) of this proclamation, is inaccurate due to an overstatement of U.S. content, the 25 percent tariff shall apply to the full value of the automobile, regardless of the actual U.S. content of the automobile. In addition, the 25 percent tariff shall be applied retroactively (from April 3, 2025, to the date of the inaccurate overstatement) and prospectively (from the date of the inaccurate overstatement to the date the importer corrects the overstatement, as verified by CBP) to the full value of all automobiles of the same model imported by the same importer. This clause does not apply to or otherwise affect any other applicable fees or penalties. [SOURCE]
It cannot be overstated how big a hit this will be to the German economy specifically. That’s why EU President Ursula von der Leyen is couching her words very carefully.
Germany drives the economic engine of the EU, and the Germans care about their money far more than they care about the security of Ukraine.
“As I have said before, tariffs are taxes – bad for businesses, worse for consumers equally in the US and the European Union,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement. “We will now assess this announcement, together with other measures the US is envisaging in the next days.”
The next biggest impact will come to Canada. The auto-sector in Canada only exists to send cars and trucks into the U.S. market. That’s the entire purpose and business model behind the Canadian auto industry. Every component part of a Canadian car that does not originate from USA will now be subject to a 25% tariff.
[Executive Order Here]
Another winnamin.
It seems Trump understands national security through economic security unlike any other POTUS we’ve seen.
EU / NATO not on board with winding down the Ukraine war? No problem, here’s another tariff. The beatings will continue until morale improves. With a huge benefit to the American middle class as manufacturing is on-shored once again.
Suddenly EU War Minister Wannabe Van der Crazy doesn’t have the cards to build an EU army.
Project Ukraine hardest hit.
Exsctly, FA with having your proxie Ukraine break the agreements before the ink is dry, and FO, as we tariff YOU.
And, we’re just getting started..we will strip you of your industry soo fast it’ll make your head spin.
Accept that No, you are NOT going to be able to kerp the frozen Russia assets, no you are not going to be able to continue the grift, by skimming off of Russian Reparations, and tell Zman to keep it in his pants, cause we want PEACE, and normalised relations with Russia.
Oh, and don’t look now, but AFD is right behind you, coming up fast and has our full support!
….and THEN, the natives became exceedingly restless….
….uh oh….
Always love your comments.
Me, too!
Like Z-boy & Trudeau and now Carney, Ursula is about to become a von-der NOBODY.
She/Her/It is getting TRUMPED!!!!
“It seems Trump understands national security through economic security unlike any other POTUS we’ve seen.”
Understanding national security is one thing. Paramount is taking steps to effectuate that security.
I’m in the auto business. Take a guess what the average new car price is?
Try $49,000 -Average used car price: $26,000
Forget tariffs – make a cheap, damn vehicle
How about the fact that Toyota can make a truck for the SE Asian market for $10,000. The Leftist idiots in Washington DC won’t allow this vehicle because of “safety standards” and other nonsense. How about I sign a piece of paper saying I don’t care.. I mean we are on the Right and believe we have rights and freedom, right. I want a $10,000 truck. If GM and Ford don’t like it I don’t care. GM is run by Mary Barra who believes in DEI and Global warming and wants GM to go all-electric. She also loves Joe Biden. To hell with GM if they can’t do it.
Toyota can make it here in the US so no tariffs and the Communists in the Bureaucracy can pound sand.
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2025-toyota-imv-0-pickup-truck-first-drive-review-japan-mobility-show/
And Nissan has the basic long bed mid-size, manual tranny pick up in Mexico. Cheap, reliable. People in US border towns have to buy them in Mexico and drive them over the border. Henry Ford where are you?
Nissan is currently in a struggle to survive. They’re projected to run out of operating cash by year’s end. Both Honda & Mitsubishi have backed out of purchasing them & the latest suitor is rumored to be Stelantis.
Henry Ford built basic cars affordable for the masses, and fired his accountants who said he would never make money. The Ford Motor Company is a very different entity now.
I too am in the auto industry (T****a) and Akio Toyota has stated many times that Toyota will build what people want to buy. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and EPA CAFE fuel economy regulations have a lot of influence on vehicle pricing.
Most all Toyotas sold in the USA are built all across the USA by American workers, but not all. Toyota has made huge investments in the US, and it’ll be interesting to see how they respond.
2008 manual extended cab Taco driver here.
I want 30 mpg or I ain’t buying.
Honda and Tesla are two of the most “American” brands now. GM and Ford bought into the whole NAFTA scam whole-heartedly.
M A G A !!!!!!
And MEGA!!
Old & Busted: AUDI.
New Hotness: FAFO.
I’d drive that.
From ZERO to WINNING in LIGHT SPEED !!
We extend the Southern Border far enough to encompass all the Maquilladora that manufacture exclusively to sell to America, and suddenly they are all American factories, and can continue without tariffs of any kind.
The owners of the factories, such as Germany, might well, well, by now, they most certainly would welcome that move, it would save them the trouble of building new plants.
It would also give us about a fifty mile freefire zone to eliminate cartel forces; a Win-Win-Win!!
💀 🙏 💀
Interesting idea!
Name the new state Salvadora, and build lots of prisons and Army bases there.
I take it this means USMCA doesnt exist anymore? It’s a treaty Trump negotiated during his first term.
It exists, it will be soon renegotiated, it doesn’t prevent what is being done now.
Neither Snowdians nor Sandians were ever supposed to circumvent for the benefit of other nations, as best I recall.
We’ll see what happens, as we OD on popcorn.
I take it you did not read the EXECUTIVE ORDER, Bob.
ouch! I been spanked before…..lmao
Me too. He uses a wooden paddle.
Smack! LMAO!
He is not a reader, he is a writer. 🤣
There is something to be said about buying a Japanese Built car (2005 acura rsx-s)
I never knew this…Subaru is a Japanese brand. According to a quick Brave search, 75% of the vehicles are made in Japan…6 factories around the world, 4 in Japan and one in Lafayette, IN.
Yeah, they bought that plant off of Isuzu after their death throws, they made so many Rodeos for some reason that they rented just about every parking place in Indianapolis to park them, including our dealership parking lot forcing employees to park elsewhere, they were getting 4 bucks per vehicle/day as I recall.
Lefties hardest hit !!! That’s their preferred auto!!! lol
I still drive a 2005 Toyota Corolla. It has over 240k miles and it runs like gold. I’ve had it for over 10 years and all I’ve had to do for it was a starter, some tires, and brakes.
I wanna buy Hydrogen!!
You “urban” bomb, you.
Clean combustion is the bomb!!
If I’m ever gonna build my insane nothing like it circus ride it should have the best technology blended with old fashioned FUN and FIRE.
Was the Hindenberg sabotage by the Rockefeller oil companies?
If not the incident (using flammable, plentiful hydrogen instead of safe helium), but the media hoopla?
The automobile was in its infancey, the number of autos didn’t equal the number of horses on the roads until 1928.
The hydrogen engine was invented in 1895.
Otto Diesel’s engine was made in conjunction with Washington Carver to run on peanut oil; they saw a way to end hunger and poverty, with cheap protein for the masses (Carver peanut/soy) and mechanization of their labor (horse/human muscle power).
One third of Midwest farmers grew their own fuel with hemp oil and various ethanols (like peanut oil) they grew themselves.
Edison had a safe, reliable electric car that ran up to 1000 miles per charge using safe, nonflammable SODIUM batteries.
How much “Rockefeller medicine” (oil-based drugs) and “Rockefeller education” (factory educaton) style chicanery has affected history and the headlines?
Those in the know understand the Rockefellers have been a cancer on America and the world for 100+ years.
Billy Gates is riding on John Rockefellers coat tails.
It’s a dead end technology. There is no such thing as a natural hydrogen source. It has to be manufactured. Which means you utilize another fuel source to create it. It’s an inefficient process that will always be more expensive than alternatives.
In addition, the infrastructure needed to handle it and transport it are substantial.
Should anyone find a way to provide hydrogen efficiently & economically it has great promise.
They were testing fuel cell modules instead of 3000 lbs of lead/acid batteries in electric forklifts in Indianapolis, I was not privy to any details but the thing that intrigued me the most was that this small fuel cell could effectively be a distributed electrical grid in a cluster of houses in a neighborhood but also heat your home @ the same time as its only exhaust is heat & water… H2O <<< unless someone decides to classify water is a climate poisoning chemical or heat for that matter.<eye roll>
I use low voltage in water for cleaning metals. That process could be solar powered and the gases produced (hydrogen and oxygen) could be captured and stored as fuel. Just a thought, no idea if it could be produced in sufficient quantities.
Excellent, Baileysdad, there seem to be a number of alternative production methods for hydrogen; surely we can put the investment towards it as we did in politically dirty lithium and cobalt mining.
Magic Wand, above you, mentions fuel cells, which are an EXCELLENT way to deal with the dangers of hydrogen. We deal with the dangers of ammonia, for instance. Wand also mentions resiliant distributed site usage rather than trying to force everything into a grid.
Natgas would be an immediate 40% reduction in pollution; propane tanks on pickup truck were a cheap, easy conversion that popped up everywhere in the ’79 “gas crisis”, which had oil tankers stacked up off of Oakland to the horizon. (There was no actual gas crisis.)
Forgive me the rant, folks, but we have millions of smart, capable guys like Baileydad and Magic Wand just waiting to be set free.
There are just so many, many viable solutions to the energy questions of corruption, more corruption, and pollution.
Rught: if there were a magic unobtanium catalyst discovered, H2 might become viable.
But nat gas is workable for the same purpose right now – and it is a primary fuel.
Supplies of seabed methane ice slush surpass other carbon based fuels. It is always snowing in the great depths of the ocean.
Japan, which lacks good domestic oil and coal sources, is working on technology to vacuum it up to the surface.
When this is scaled up after sucessful development, it will undercut other energy sources. It will change the world’s energy map profoundly.
Which is probably why it has not been developed yet!
Nuclear is coming back as small modular reactors without huge resistance because the people who have paid to block it now want it to power server farms where the power must be cheap and uninteruptable, co-located with the farms to avoid interupted transmission.
And just like that, the antinuclear movement is muted instead of amplified.
There is no true shortage of energy .
There are only manufactured longterm scarcities imposed to maximise revenue for big old money invested in current production and distribution methods.
Hydrogen is for idiots !
Besides it not existing in nature, the molecule is so tiny it’s virtually impossible to keep it from leaking from the many many fittings necessary in the plumbing required for any hydrogen system.
You gonna trust Joe Shmoe local auto shop to work on your 4000 psi storage tank and plumbing to the engine – To NOT Leak ??? And when it does, cause it will – BOOM
I did natural gas filling stations for natural gas powered cars when the Bush administration passed subsidies to try to get that market started.
And it was difficult to keep those systems from leaking – and CH4 is a much much larger molecule than H2.
You think gasoline can be dangerous ? Hi Pressure methane is DANGEROUS. And Hi Pressure Hydrogen Is INSANE !!!
<Besides it not existing in nature, the molecule is so tiny it’s virtually impossible to keep it from leaking>
The Sun is primarily composed of hydrogen (about 70%) and helium (about 28%) by mass.
The remaining 1.5% consists of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, while the final 0.5% includes trace amounts of other elements such as neon, iron, silicon, magnesium, and sulfur.
Pretty sure there are plenty of things in nature that give off hydrogen, it is the original building block & ultimate fuel across the entire Cosmos.
<I did natural gas filling stations for natural gas powered cars>
I was the only guy that was CNG certified to work on those cars & then moved to forklifts that are LPG, I know the dangers but not all of they guys we had working on them were sharp knives either nor certified to do it.
And hydrogen fuel cells never caused an accident & NASA still uses them.
<You gonna trust Joe Shmoe local auto shop to work on your 4000 psi storage tank and plumbing to the engine – To NOT Leak ???>
2025 Current ASE Statistics:
Compressed Natural Gas Technicians : 923
Master Automobile Technicians: 53,094
There were way less people in those certifications when I was one.
Exactly!
Hydrogen fueled vehicles like nat gas fueled vehicles, have to carry a heavy pressurized tank on board. Plus H2 is not a primary fuel source.
Analyzing the total energy cycle would make these problems obvious.
Just like with oil-based plastics instead of biodegradable hemp plastics, we just have to let the world fill up with trash because *wah wah wah* can’t innovate.
We gotta save the corrupt corporation’s bottom line!
Every single penny must be squeezed for our sacred corporations, and to hades with the culture!
How else with the politicians get their bribes?
Ford in Brazil has been mading tri-fuel vehicles for decades. Gas-alcohol-electric hybrids.
Why can’t we have multiple alternatives instead of a giant one-size-must-fit-all, like we insist on for the energy grid or education industries?
Not to the typical person who understands nothing about engineering.
Water. H2O. A 12V battery connected to a bank of stainless steel plates will easily separate the hydrogen gas from the water molecules.
Stanley Meyers water engine.
He wasn’t the first nor was he the only one to develop a water engine.
just buy Jeep Willys. You may get 7 miles per gallon, but it’s easier to fill at the pump then to sell your soul to the devil.
Good gosh. In high school in the 70s, the autoshop guys had catalogues for Army surplus Willys; they were still in the crate, disassembled, you assembled them yourself. $695 !! They were perfect for the Nevada outback.
Only if you live in California.
Silly. Hydrogen is not a primary fuel like oil, coal, and natural gas: it takes energy to extract it. It’s more costly than it’s worth.
“Green” means a pit mine the size of Ohio. No energy used there!
Toyota’s got you. https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-provides-technology-roadmap-at-the-2025-hydrogen-and-fuel-cell-seminar/
UAW statement:
In a Victory for Autoworkers, Auto Tariffs Mark the Beginning of the End of NAFTA and the “Free Trade” Disaster
https://uaw.org/tariffs-mark-beginning-of-victory-for-autoworkers
I’m surprised. That Shawn Fain guy is a huge left tard.
Vietnam to cut import duties amid Trump tariff worries
(Vietnam said it plans to cut import duties on a range of goods including cars, liquefied gas and some agricultural products)
https://manufacturing.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/vietnam-to-cut-import-duties-amid-trump-tariff-worries/119531359?utm_source=latest_news&utm_medium=homepage
VSG needs to include semi trucks also. Daimler put many US suppliers out of business by turning to Mexico and China.
They also built two huge billions dollars truck assembly plants in Mexico, moving those jobs out of the US.
I remember when Detroit was non-stop busy; 15 years after NAFTA, it was dead. I mean nuthin’.
We and the Canadians were busy running all the former Detroit loads to Laredo for the car plants in now in Mexico.
Please train the Trump successor in these strategies and tactics. No politician has a clue how to do this stuff or the gumption to do it.
I would keep an eye on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
If there was a stealth successor to continue those policies, I would likely point to him.
Sundance has alluded to such on the Twit.
He’s such a happy warrior too!
Yes! It’s always good to see Commerce Secretary Lutnick on the tv – he has a strong positive mental attitude!
Are we watching the same television? Lutnick is an egotistical jerk who appears to be completely out of touch with reality.
Hard, hard pass.
Oh yeah. The problem with us older generations is we didn’t train the next generations.
We didn’t think about proteges, or any future but our retirement.
The ones just before us built this stuff from scratch; some of us built more with what they taught us; but the poor kids don’t know how to do any of that anymore.
Speak for yourself, fabricator.
I’ve devoted my ENTIRE LIFE to bringing up the youngens right, in agriculture, logistics, and infrastructure, and the love of my life did as well in infra.
HE never got to retire–worked till he dropped–and now my retirement is more work as well.
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THE universal language
Germany deserves it .
The cartel parties of Germany make a literal communist and alleged Stasi collaborator the Senior President of the Bundestag.
And talk about outlawing AFD, and now in France talk of arresting Marine Le Penn,…these Globullust fascists really do all operate from the same playbook, oh, and Connor McGregor also threatened with arrest…
They can’t hold back the MAGA/MEGA Mvmnt, that is building Worldwide, and will be the largest political movement the World hss ever seen.
The new Toyota 4Runner just got very expensive.
The Toyota IMV O truck, which will not at this point going to be sold in the US, is about $10,000. If Toyota decided to export them to the US, even at 25% duty, they would have a huge market, and make up for the loss in sales of the Tacoma.
Nah, buy a Bronco.
Broncos are bought by losers who can’t or won’t buy Jeeps.
All we have to do is get sane about the inflationary standards we impose on everything.
Sort of like, oh, I don’t know, non-tariff trade barriers?
I’d love a Bongo or a Kei Truck.
It is the idiots @ the EPA with the CAFE standards, that is why no small vehicles built so we are now forced into bigger gas guzzlers because we do not want a Gd Dmn EV vehicle!
Wish I had kept the link on how/why the math works on bigger footprint car designs to skirt the TAX on smaller vehicles… I think is varies but if the big 3 produced what we actually want … EPA/GVT smacks them with a 500+ per car tax for doing it … so they don’t.
Build EV’s they can’t even sell <eye roll> I guess the GVT is paying them for it with my/our tax dollars or they would not do that either since paying 500 – 2,000 / car that someone would buy ….. they are producing EV’s that it is claimed that they lose 30,000 per vehicle ….. that math just don’t work. Something is being hidden from John Q Public.
I think I searched for why are GMC Sonoma’s / Chevy S-10 no no longer built to get the nuts/bolts on where the EPA draws the line for ICE vs EV capable CAFE standards for taxing the combo’s / footprint / wheelbase.
Muddy waters for even me to understand having been in car dealerships for 15 years.
SUVs are classified as trucks.
Different EPA rules.
EXACTLY the problem, to skirt the small car CAFE standards & build things people will buy …. and with high markups to boot.
Until it died, I had a long bed Mitsubishi Mighty Max. Bought it used,
it made it to 40 years. LOVED that truck. The body was in great shape,
and I had tons of people from overseas tell me that everybody back home,
“in the village” loved them. 5 speed, crank windows, rubbber floor mats,
like god intended.
I thought they used to build both the Tacoma and the Tundra @ Princeton IN.
Brother wanted me to move to Evansville & apply there when it was new & building 2nd plant there, at the time they were only running 1 shift.
<Guess it was the Tundra only at the time there were building plant 2, guess they changed their minds a bit moving production around the country>
They did move production around.
A LONG time ago, Toyota in Georgetown, Ky, sent the production of the Sienna mini van to Toyota Indiana.
I don’t know if they still produce it there, but I doubt it. No idea where it’s made now.
There were parts I used to help install, and equipment we had to use that got shipped there. I was glad to see it go back then, and felt sorry for the guys who had to use that equipment we got rid of…..
They were/are great vehicles. A buddy I work with still drives a 2006 Sienna.
All 620,000 + miles of it.
He’s taken out more deer than the average hunter with it, and has what he calls “deferred maintenance”, but still keeps it running.
A typical IC engined car made in the US uses about 50 lbs of copper. An EV more than three times that. Since the US only has two copper smelters in operation, maybe hold off on the copper tariffs for awhile?
Then more would never be built.
Sounds like a win/win to me.
What is so hard about coming off CAFE standards to allow small fuel efficient vehicles to be built that are not forced to be EV by the greenies writing the CAFE standards to make it so.
This could help force the issue.
<see my above comment>
How long before these companies start filing lawsuits in Boasberg’s court?
If they could, they would.
There is no could with that clown Boasberg. There is no honor in that court, and the SC has refused to reign it in. He’ll take any lawsuit that puts a speed bump in the way of MAGA.
Canada’s Doug Ford is still stuck on stupid…
Sad Saps still selling Snow Jobs.
Canada, is there a Ford in your future?
All the little piglets sucking on the American teat are crying foul, when Trump’s operative word is fair!
We finally have an American president who has the interests of the American people at heart, and that is long overdue after a string of globalist Manchurian Candidate presidents, namely Bush 1 & 2, Clinton, Obama and especially Biden!
ALL of them supported and then enacted into law the so-called gold-standards of free trade, NAFTA and TPP, which over the last 31 years have gutted American industry and impoverished our middle class…but virtually NO one in our corrupt government or legacy media showed the outrage over those malignant trade agreements that they do over President Trump demanding reciprocity and fairness!
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act,” has often been attributed to George Orwell, though the real author is unknown. But it certainly applies here!
Last week Bill Clinton was ‘honored’ by the globalist elites at the World Economic Forum as one of America’s greatest presidents…but NAFTA happened under Slick’s watch!
Trump is ONLY one telling it like it is and he’s been doing that from the moment he rode down that escalator in Trump Tower in 2015!
And I am telling it like it is when I say, without question, that he is the savior of the Great American Experiment!
Tower
“Our biggest danger is from within.” – 47
Crossfire Hurricane 10: Revolutions of Color
-Trump Tower UNDER ATTACK Hundreds Arrested!
“Marc Elias is advising activist groups coordinating Tesla protests. Common Power is partnered with TroubleMakers on its “Stop the Trump/Musk Coup”. It’s also partnered with Elias Law Group. Troublemakers is the primary organizer of the “Tesla Takedown” campaign.”
Elias is a piece of seditious trash.
Is he still a Federal employee? I don’t care if Elias Law Group is a “private” concern, that public-private stuff is where the problem is, like with law groups or NGOs.
Domestic terrorists with a spy on the inside. You’re right, this is Sedition Inc.
Mahmoud Khalis is an Intelligence agent, likely MI6 in coordination with our IC.
“Mahmoud’s sole purpose is to radicalize overweight white women”
LOL
Never forget that NAFTA had Republicon support. Perhaps some didn’t understand the impact, but their refusal to scrap it when they could speaks louder than their denials.
Just like ObamaCare…..McCain
I’ll bet they all understood it.
A lot of people bought into the premise that Mexicans and Canadians building stuff and earning better wages, would enable them to buy more American stuff. They did not internalize the lesson that the destruction of the American steel industry SHOULD have taught.
😁
George
@BehizyTweets
The United States has a macho man who takes bullets to the face and roars UNPHASED, restructuring world trade & affairs with the stroke of his pen in real-time.
Meanwhile Europe:
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Eurostan is the center of the Pant-Suit Anti-Fash.ion industry.
Without a rainbow hijab you’re not prepared for anti-rape.
If you’re not anti-rape, you’re pro-rape.
Welcome to the E.U.S.S.R.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/09/20/four-wanted-brutal-gang-rape-france-broadcast-social-media/
Ouch!
Next up…China…
😁
Full thread….
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1905109609150599253.html
https://xcancel.com/TheLastRefuge2
Must read. Outstanding analysis.
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
Automakers are already planning major investments in the United States as
@POTUS leverages tariffs to remake the U.S. into a global manufacturing powerhouse:
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I’m really ready for this. It is going to be amazing to see how quickly these “big & tough” countries, standing up to the “big USA bully”, start to cave & modify their tariffs on us when the realization hits that we’re done being toyed with and have finally called their bluff & have forced them to go “All In” while we know they’re only holding a pair of duces.
Good Times!
A big part of what makes the U.S. Exceptional, is we automatically WIN any trade war we engage in, with any other country.
“Germany drives the economic engine of the EU, and the Germans care about their money far more than they care about the security of Ukraine.”
This a moab tarif for the eu.
Will autozone or the “parts shack” go bankrupt?
Its slso gonna mean foreign made parts in these stores will cost more than the American parts.
Does napa know how to deal with this gut punch?😂
Electric skate boards for short trips will be hot items. Junkyard wars begin also.😉
After the EU carbon belching factories sit idle their climate will change.
They don’t see the win in this?
Net Zero in Germany. Their dream come true. Why are they complaining?
Oh wait… zero emissions, zero jobs, zero money.
Maybe the German people will start giving their politicians French haircuts. Then again, maybe not.
‘ It cannot be overstated how big a hit this will be to the German economy specifically…Germany drives the economic engine of the EU…’
Some suggest that this is another sign of a long-term background agenda:
Degrade the US Bloc including the EU, concentrating on the nations including the US, Germany, and Japan with more potential to impede the rise of China’s industrial and scientific dominance and it’s symbiotic globalists.
Indeed, look at the record. All three are being degraded by multiple mechanisms fronted by falsehoods, accelerated in 2020 with the plandemic and shots.
(Japan was used for key steps in deployment of the Replicon shots, which appear poised to take the US Bloc down. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/attack-of-the-replicons )
Trump’s actions are draped as “addressing problems” but will they?
For example: In the name of “improving efficiency” and “tackling the deficit and debt”, DOGE is inflicting chaos and inefficiency on the federal workforce with indiscriminate cuts that will not make a significant reduction in the deficit or debt. Outcomes: More government chaos and dysfunction, workforce unquestioningly compliant with command and control – both the apparent REAL goals.
Tariffs do work to increase industry in the home nation, but it takes years to build plants and ramp up production. Much more than 3 years to significantly increase the US industrial base. Is that the real goal of Trump’s tariffs, or are they really just more of the chaos-stirring?
You write that you see a long term plan to degrade the United States.
Then you write that tariffs “do work to increase industry in the home nation, but it takes years to build plants.”
See the contradiction?
As to the work of DOGE, we’ll have to disagree that the cuts are indiscriminate and chaotic. I’ve been reading the cuts at the DOGE website, and all seem very sensible.
Also, having worked one summer long ago for the federal government, I have direct experience with the federal workforce. They don’t work.
My boss ate his morning cereal in his office. Another worker did nothing except jog outside.
There were only two people in an office of 30 who did significant work, and the work they did was of questionable worth, mostly poorly designed studies about the effects of various policies, studies that led to nothing.
Musk is aiming for one trillion in cuts. I believe he will achieve this.
If he does, this will have fantastic long term effects on the budget.
The apparent long-term plan to degrade the US Bloc spans multiple US administrations.
The Trump actions including tariffs end in less than 4 years, as soon as the next administration reverses them as per usual.
Your stories about federal workers are not necessarily representative of the overall workforce.
The federal employee payroll is only 4% of the overall budget. If it were cut in half, that would only reduce overall budget by 2%. That is not a significant reduction in overall spending, the deficit, or the debt – which is in runaway growth now due to interest.
Any other misconceptions to address?
On any given day 5% of the Federal workers are in the office and that includes janitorial and security. Cutting waste reduces the budget. The reduction is significant.
The Trump actions including tariffs end in less than 4 years, as soon as the next administration reverses them as per usual.
This is incorrect.
Here’s a timeline showing that Biden was dealing with the trade war throughout his entire admin:
https://www.distilledspirits.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/US-EU-UK-spirits-tariffs-backgrounder-5.2024-summary.pdf
The federal employee payroll is only 4% of the overall budget. If it were cut in half, that would only reduce overall budget by 2%. That is not a significant reduction in overall spending, the deficit, or the debt – which is in runaway growth now due to interest.
This is a half-truth. It’s not taking into account the additional 10 percent of federal contractors, and one trillion fifty-two billion is a sizable chunk of change for anybody’s purse, even yours.
Over the past 50 years, the number of federal workers has grown by roughly 6%. At the same time, the U.S. population has increased by 57%. The ratio of federal workers to national population has steadily decreased for the more than a half-century at this point. In 2024, the total federal workforce compensation of $293 billion amounted to just 4.3% of the federal budget. Meanwhile, federal contractors accounted for $759.2 billion, or 11.4%. If federal workers were paid equally to private sector workers, their pay would make up a 10% share of the budget.
https://www.afge.org/article/afge-continues-to-debunk-misconceptions-about-federal-workers/
Any other misstatements I can address for you?
“If it were cut in half”, it would stop half of the incessant, unceasing, tumorous regulatory attacks on EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF OUR LIVES.
The unelected, unaccountable Regulatory State is what must be demolished.
FDR’s New Deal sovietization of the United States must be destroyed, before it destroys us and all of /our/ people.
We went on sovietize our ancestral homeland with the EU after we failed to resuscitate our WWII ally, the USSR.
Since our oligarchs failed to steal Russia’s remains, they turned to China as the backup plan to make themselves richer and continue destroying the US, the Anglo Commonwealth, and Europa.
Chaos is what we want in the Federal government! It’s been captured by hostile occupiers!
The US was turned into the mad pit bull menacing the world…once, we were LOVED.
Now, we are feared…spreading war and Pride globally.
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🚨NEW: Trump says that if the EU works with Canada to economically harm the US he will be implementing large scale tariffs on them BOTH, far larger than currently planned.
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Ursula is “envisaging” what we’re doing? Read ‘em and weep, Urs.
In a somewhat odd move, using members of the Bundestag just voted out rather than those just elected in the recent federal election, the Germans changed their constitution to make the climate-change agenda (drastic reduction in carbon dioxide emissions) a constitutional imperative, and they have removed limits on government debt.
By continuing to follow a socialist/green agenda (supposedly for the sake of forming a coalition government with social democrats rather than with the conservative party AfD, with whom this also would have been possible), they will do nothing to reduce energy costs, taxes, and illegal immigration. Even under the new chancellor Merz, Germany will continue to lose factories and industry and skilled workers. In Hamburg, they even just blew up a very modern, efficient coal-based energy plant the other day.
There is a lot of poverty among the elderly, as well as high unemployment, but illegal aliens are given priority where funding is concerned.
The German government seems determined to continue down the road to poverty, at least thus far. Big German companies will probably see the new tariff and corporate taxes in the US as a great inducement to move to the US and escape Germany, at least until there is a major change in German government policy, including discarding of the climate-change agenda.
I suspect most Germans are alarmed by these developments, but many are evidently still influenced by mainstream media bias against the AfD and their policies. The AfD has increased in popularity, but they are still treated as a pariah by the other parties, by the mainstream media and – possibly – also by the German bureaucracies (federal and state).
How long will it take for the left’s domestic gang to start keying Chevys and Fords in protest?
Socialists hate prosperity and freedom.
Let’s hope that’s the worst they will do.
The goal is bring important manufacturing and jobs back to the US.
Countries that run trade deficits might lower tariffs in order to have the tariffs dropped in the US. But the US will need to see actual purchases of our products before dropping our tariffs. The other ways that those countries restrain trade must be stopped.
In sectors that the US feels is important, it will not matter what the other countries do. Those jobs must return to the US at all costs.
We often talk about the tariffs in terms of foreign manufacturers. But American companies have been offshoring for decades. Ford, GM, Intel, need to hire American.
Trump needs to work with Congress to mandate all online sales websites must clearly and unambiguously disclose the country in which a product was manufactured, and encourage states to lower sales taxes on verifiably Made in USA products.
Shame he can’t put tariffs on all these judges for bringing in illegal rulings.
MAGA is The BEST EVER,
This is way better than cash for clunkers.
In your face Barack Hussein!
We just need to make SURE EVERYTHING we buy is made in America. That would be what we call “doing our part”.
Always has been that way. The hard part is finding something you want or need that has been made here. Hopefully that will be changing soon.
I’m open to buying cars from Japan though.
This is a major blow against the EU globalist elites. It may be the shot in the arm – forgive the metaphor – that the patriot movements there need.
Yes, absolutely, it is the occupation government of the EU that must be brought down, before they destroy our family in Europe.
Is there a tariff on “zee bugs”?
Wow!
Basically good!
Too much bureaucracy will be created trying to determine what percentage of parts in a car built in Mexico were from USA….
Just apply the 25% tariffs and eliminate too much red tape. And loopholes.
This is a very big kick in the teeth to Germany. Previously in a long-term strategy to avoid U.S. tariffs, German automakers invested billions in auto assembly plants in Mexico. Ex. the BMW parts were shipped from Germany and the cars assembled in Mexico. Now that investment is worthless as the vehicle will be taxed at a rate of 25% regardless of whether it is assembled in Germany or Mexico.
It will destroy Germany, because Germany’s auto industry was already taking a big hit because of China.
BMW reports 37% drop in net profit for 2024 amid weak China demand
https://www.facebook.com/WIONews/videos/bmw-reports-37-drop-in-net-profit-for-2024-amid-weak-china-demand/1745477016010259/
I wonder which left wing judge will find a creative reason to stop these tariffs in their tracks.
GM and Ford are gonna be squealing! Even Toyota (Lexus) –
My hope is that we are factoring in the value added taxes imposed by other countries in an attempt to get some minimal level of fairness.
I don’t know the numbers but I believe in Mexico they are very high taxes.
“US” automakers mostly build cars in Canada due to their universal health care system.
Work for major Automotive OE. This is a very dynamic issue & being told that while the details are changing by the hour, there is no panic inside my OE.
There are many things I am trying to understand with the tariffs/mfg/economic/MAGA security and hoping the smart folks in the TH can help. I totally understand we need to make things here again and that helps with economic security. But isn’t this only one type/area of jobs being brought back to the country? How about white-collar jobs? Accounting/banking/IT, etc. Do they just naturally “flow” from these jobs/tariffs? I am just not understanding how these things follow. I know all I see are countless American jobs being on/off/reshored to other countries daily, including the countless abundance of Visa/foreign workers…..I mean in excess. How is that going to create a working US economy? Genuine question. I am trying to game all this out to the American Golden age…TIA for any insight
The people who can afford new Mercedes and BMW’s will still buy them.
Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers from Car Talk, always said: one way or another, you are paying for a car. Either you have car payments, or repair payments, and at some point you may have both.
My chariots are worth it.