Facing the potential for tariffs on Mexican assembled autos, Honda has cancelled plans to invest in a new auto factory in Guanajuato, Mexico, beginning in November 2027. Instead, the car company will retool the Civic auto production facility in Greensburg, Indiana, keeping jobs in the USA.
TOKYO, March 3 (Reuters) – Honda has decided to produce its next-generation Civic hybrid in the U.S. state of Indiana, instead of Mexico, to avoid potential tariffs on one of its top-selling car models, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The change underscores how manufacturers are scrambling to adapt to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada. While several automakers have expressed concerns about the levies, Honda’s move is the first concrete measure by a major Japanese car company.
Japan’s second-largest automaker had initially planned to manufacture the next-generation Civic in Guanajuato, Mexico, according to the three people. Production was slated to start from November 2027, according to one of the people. Mexico was chosen because rising costs were making it tough to produce the car in Indiana and Canada, one of them said.
It now plans to build the new Civic model in Indiana from May 2028 with an expected annual production of around 210,000, one of the people said. Honda would look to import from nations not hit by tariffs if production in Indiana falls short of demand, one of them said. (read more)
Honda also has facilities in Georgia and Alabama. Its plant in the Peach State produces gearboxes, while the Alabama plant produces the brand’s bigger Passport and Pilot SUVs and the Ridgeline pickup and Odyssey minivan.
Separately, Honda is making investments in American production. It has committed $1 billion toward turning its Ohio facilities, including the Marysville Auto Plant, into an “EV hub.”
More winning. Love it. 👊✝️👊
Welcome to the MAGA Industrial Complex! Suck on that Globalists and NWO.
and stupid ass “Wall Street Journal”!
Any possibility Jeff Bezos might buy it?
When all the other countries in the world put tariffs on US it is OK but if we do it thenit is not fair. Time for them to grow up. Does anyone know of a chart that would list all the tariffs against the US.
The Art of the Deal…
A common sense approach to bringing back the manufacturing jobs in America. If we can buy it here, we can make it here. MAGA working for the American worker.
It will make much more sense for many once he eliminates the income tax. It’s coming. It’s the natural progression of this whole plan. Prices won’t come down, but taxes will which in turn raises individual income. It’s coming.
Soon, I hope.
Food will come.down as will fuels labor will skyrocket with higher wages basically wages.will catch up to where.they were pre-covid and beyond.
Rising wages will have an inflationary effect but buying power will grow.at a.faster.rate then inflation
We will save the cost of supporting illegal aliens and welfare and Medicaid frauds. Work requirements will prod people back to work and improve their lives.
The kids will have their Boys and Girls Club back!
Less demand on supply will also bring down prices.
So will increased production.
When a major part of government spending is pulled from the economy and the higher wages are spent in the economy I think the inflation will actually go down because you are returning to a market driven economy instead of having a fake economy
and the government is not borrowing money.
THAN lol
I bet prices will come down too, relatively, due to more market competition within the US. The sectors involved will be interesting to watch and we may be pleasantly surprised as our supply of goods increases across the board.
Prices will come down if natural gas and oil supplies go up.
Correct. But not as quickly as we will see the effect of these tariffs.
I interpret this to mean, that glorious label “Made in America”:
No more cheap and overpriced stuff from China with overpriced ‘warranties’.
No more ‘planned obsolescence’.
No overpricing/price gouging American citizens.
Big box? Make them earn our ‘loyalty’.
Bring back the business model of Sears/Kenmore appliances—My beloved Kenmore/Whirlpool fridge from 1996 is still struggling and on life support….FIRST problem ever…after all those years, a quarter of a century. Been thru four kids, five dogs…two sets of Grandparents…dang its part of the family LOL.
No more help desk people who barely speak English. No AI for that either.
God Bless America.
I don’t mean to rain on anybody’s parada, but are these cars being “made in America” or assembled in America?
Are they being made with American steel and components produced in America or steel (and plastics) made elsewhere and just fitted in(on)to chassis here?
Do they want to pay tariffs on the parts? Its.across.the.board.tariff.they will.bring as much.here.as.they can
If I understand correctly, tariffs get applied to the sell price in the country of origin, not including transport costs or any mark-up paid by the buyer. Plus the relative currency valuation changes; typically the tariffs selling country’s currency devalues while the buying country’s currency goes up. The tariffs in PDJT’s first term added a one-time roughly 2% increase to Chinese goods.
If you want to import parts, metal, and other components to build in American with American employees then a tariff will be imposed on those imports.
That will incentivize part manufacturers to move back to the USA and no longer pay tariffs AND have the 15% corporate tax rate that he is pushing.
PDJT is trying to encourage/incentivize having EVERY FACET OF MANUFACTURING to occur in the USA.
The Carrot and the Stick.
I agree, there is a big economic difference between “assembled in the USA” versus “assembled in the US with US-made components”. However: both are better economically than importing finished vehicles.
What I think I keep seeing when there is an awful accident in the local news is that the damaged cars look like discarded Christmas wrapping crumpled up.
Lightweight material in cars as I understand, due to fuel efficiency regulations. Maybe performance? And regulatory overreach is on the menu.
That is a good question. The answer is that the components are made in smaller American owned plants in the area around the assembly pant. These are contracts that are renewed annually and are very competitive.
“………but are these cars being “made in America” or assembled in America?”
I would expect that, in the beginning, a majority of the parts will be imported. Going from zero to full production doesn’t happen overnight. We need to remember that with most auto manufacturers they sub out the bulk of their production to smaller companies. That’s the added bonus here, that in time there can be smaller companies in the US making parts, and they don’t need to be located right next door to the assembly line. Only need to be close enough that shipments can be made reliably. This means that many more than just those living in Greensburg, Indiana will benefit.
Baby steps, Charlie. But more importantly, are they real Americans working those factories or are they staffed with illegals? Old globalist habits die hard.
Completely agree, those were the great products of yesterday. I bought a Samsung fridge about 8 years ago and it is the loudest, leakiest and worst refrigerator ever. Even the repair man said not worth fixing the ice maker, they are still very noisy and cost prohibitive.
My old Amana was retired at nearly 18 years old but was still running. I fell for the new “French door” models and out went the Amana. Would love to see quality appliances making a comeback at a reasonable price. Sears service their machines very well under a warranty plan and all appliances were included. Great business model.
Learned my lesson with Samsung as well. Replaced my 25 y/o Kenmore fridge with a Samsung whose fridge freezes. Had it repaired numerous times under warranty & will toss it out this year.
When the Xiden junta announced new, forthcoming washer/dryer regulations, I sucked up the financial pain & replaced my twice repaired 30 y/o washer & dryer with American made Speed Queen commercial grade appliances. They will very likely outlive me.
I hear you….my Samsung ice maker is so loud, it wakes you up and sounds like someone is breaking through a window. The washer/dryer saga is another avenue of headaches.
OH boy…The many stories I could tell about each of my appliances over the years. That subject alone would make a great podcast/YouTube channel someday for a specific audience. But I digress….:)
I ditched a 5 year old samsung washing machine because it decided to stop allowing me to use cold water only. There was no way to override the original settings. It was a “smart” washing machine. Bought myself a Speed Queen last year. It will outlive me.
A few years back I bought a second hand, old school machine; the kind that still has an agitator, and the guy delivered it too! Plus he hooked it up for me. Still works like a champ!
Be careful with Speed Queen. As good as the machines are, when you have a problem, Speed Queen’s customer service is the absolute WORST. I speak from personal experience.
On the other hand they do make pretty good cell phones.
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Wish we could bring back great stores like Sears and Kmart.
Everything you said!
Glorious!
Hopefully you can get a good repairman to replace the part and keep her going!
My dear Grandmother had her beloved Sear’s Harvest Gold side-by-side conking out after 27 years (in 1996) and we could have, should have kept her going – but had a fridge and freezer full of groceries and just went ahead and had a new who knew what fridge delivered that day.
Been reading TCTH for years but never commented. When I downsized five years ago, the home I bought had been remodeled and all new appliances were put in, all American made Whirlpool. Not ever a problem with the Whirlpool. By the way, thanks for your stories about the Panama Canal. So thoroughly enjoyed. Big shout out to Sundance for the education he has given me through the years. Much better than any University or college. Thank you to all the treepers for many laughs and a great education. Love you all and God Bless you all.
Made In USA is alive & well – just start today rejecting anything/everything but…
{ https://madeintheusamatters.com/ }
Oh my God, I hate that! Sometimes I have just hung up in frustration because I can’t understand their broken “English”. I stopped visiting a local drive thru because half the employees didn’t speak English!
American farmers produce 80 percent of America’s produce. Canada sells 20 percent of our produce to us, a 37 billion dollar yearly industry for the Kanucks.
American farmers have the ability to supply all of our produce.
Can American farmers stand to get an injection of 37 billion more dollars? I think that’s way too much winning, if ya ask me.
Made especially sweet, since Canada has had punitive tariffs on our farm products for years. This is just a little bit of Canuck pro quo.
Their tariff for us on milk is something like 240%…what’s with that?
Our Jerseys and Holsteins not good enough?
Right and the lamestream media never mentions the harsh tariffs that Canada imposes on the US. They act so hurt and offended as they are twisting the knife.
Hopefully feed the world first with our farmers produce and feed America last with what’s leftover has ended???
Granting asylum to the Boer farmers from South Africa is a perfect complement to our great American farmers. We could feed the world if we join forces and reclaim all the farmland from Bill Gates and China.
That is an operation we could take on with Russia.
So much potential in a Russo-American relationship no longer thwarted by our enemies.
First time commenter, long time TCTH reader.
What a great idea. Thank you for all your narrations on the Trump rallys and your wonderful Warrior Dance and Godzilla stuff. God bless you.
God Bless you back, Brat!
I can call you Brat, can’t I? 😁
We are all so blessed here aren’t we, especially with the gift of our voice, to learn and practice our skills at expressing ourselves and our ideas, I, for example, was born a poor dumb child, and here I am!
Unofficially and not specifically authorized on behalf of Puddy who so often welcomes our new commenters, Welcome To The Treehouse!!
Of course you can call me brat! I call myself that because my Dad was in the Navy for almost 30 years. Thank you for officially welcoming me to the Treehouse.
Mon plaisir, bien sur!
Excellent idea!!
It irks me like nothing here in California – where we live, not far from Temecula and Fallbrook, where they grow all those beautiful avocadoes – and then seeing in our grocery produce these avocadoes from Chile or Peru – it just does not seem right!
If The Climate kooks really cared about lessening pollution it would be a no brainer to keep produce local –just makes sense.
Yes indeed!
*AND* organic AND non-GMO!
Their screed isn’t about ‘the environment’ whatsoever… it’s about control & grifting money.
WE the People MUST make it about MAHA & making the environment healthy again…
by rejecting food-&-soil-polluting toxins-for-corporate-profits.
Me too. There are great produce stands along Highway 76 east of 15 to buy direct. I don’t know Fallbrook well enough to comment on direct buy options out there.
Lots of land for sale east of Temecula along 79, dammit. It’s very rural here. I wish there were some ranchers and farmers who would pool funds and buy up. But the traffic has become constant, up from a slow trickle ten years ago.
Also Substack writer publishes UNWON reporting on how ranching and farming under constant assault in the West. Sonoma County actually had a measure in the last election to ban farming. She is a great writer, worth checking out.
My step mother still lives in that area. It’s sad how many of the groves that survived the fires are being bulldozed so they can build on the land. When I was a kid in Long Beach you could get free avocados all the time because there were so many trees. You could ride through the alleys and collect them off the ground. But starting in the 80s the big developers began bulldozing all of the nice old homes and putting up massive, multistory buildings where once there were nice houses with yards.
I don’t mean to be picky, but your percentages do not add up.
A lot of fruit and produce comes up from the south.
Awesome!
Once we end the illegal & visa worker programs, American citizens will benefit from these jobs.
We’ve already been told we are going to increase H1b. Elon threatened to hold his breath until he turned blue, and he got his way.
H1B foreign born MBBS doctors are taking over our current system.
I don’t think that will stand. Note, Trump’s businesses employ H2B visa holders, which is a very different program.
PDJT has said that to get the 15% corporate tax that you must build your product in America and hire Americans.
I cannot see keeping the “carve outs” for businesses that undercut employment of Americans by hiring foreign indentured servants. Americans WILL do the jobs but not for slave wages.
They may keep the H1B model around for a while until they can replace their indentured servants with American workers but in the meantime, they pay the high corporate tax rate.
Do Not Hire Americans = No 15% Corporate Tax Rate. You may still be able to have your business but it is going to cost you.
I don’t think it’ll play out that way but we’ll see.
When I was growing up, migrant workers were the “poor white trash” whose kids were in and out of school systems. They worked alongside us teenagers in the orchards. Apparently teens are no longer allowed to do that work.
Anyway, working conditions have to be better no matter where people are from. That means more cost to consumers. In my mind that’s better than regulations and more taxes to pay for those regulations. Somehow incentives need to be devised…
Then they went back to Mexico when the season was over.
The dollars earned
went a long way back in Mexico.
I had been listening to the local news affiliate here in Buffalo NY for weather (flood watch coming up, creek in backyard) last night.
When an “economist” came on to give some commentary on tariffs, I promptly changed the channel, instead of subjecting myself to “mockingbird media” dung.
Everything we have been taught about economics and tariffs for the last century has been either wrong or a deliberate lie.
Lies and bullshit – college curriculum. l wonder what edition Samuelsons eco text is now.
Much of it
I used to hear WBEN in Buffalo too..Can’t pick it up anymore here in South Dakota.
This place specializes in affordable AM radios and antennas. Perhaps on a clear night you might be able to tune in again.
https://ccrane.com/
Many of their radios also have weather band, SW and aircraft band capability, as well as FM
I have purchased a few from them over the years. My CCPocket has a great digital tuner.
Thank you. I signed up, and can’t wait for my catalog.
YW
Back when my late father spent a few years living in Oregon he told us he could get KFI (a local LA radio station) on his radio late at night. That was when it was still worth listening to.
Same here. I listen to local news but never network tripe.
Sadly our local stations got bought out and killed off by clear channel about 2 decades back. Now I hear Soris is hoovering up all the stations.
I had a very short debate with a local Walmart cashier who expressed her worry that prices would be soaring once tariffs took effect, particularly on produce. I stated that we grow most of our own produce and she argued we don’t, then lamented what she was going to do when she had to “give up avocados “. By this time the groceries were bagged and paid for and I had to get out of the way for the next customer. I left the store reflecting on how brainwashed our society has become, and how close minded. I guess it doesn’t occur to most people that there are other sources for those things.
I chalk much of that up to misplaced trust in MSM and authority figures.
We still have people wearing face masks, thinking that it is protecting them. The only thing they do reliably is reduce the oxygen concentration in your blood.
If you tell them about the disclaimer on the side of the box, they look at you like your from another planet.
A lot of our avacados and limes do come from Mexico, but that is about it.
We do not grow our own bananas, either.
As a lifelong Hoosier, I am quite certain that our State RINO RepubliCon party, along with our feckless governor, will take total credit for this win. Every single one of them is a soulless grifter.
Thank you President Trump for this amazing achievement. May God continue to bless you and your loyal supporters.
It’s what they do.
Subarus are built in Indiana and have been for sometime now.
That was during the Robert Orr administration in 1986. He was preceded by Governor Otis Bowen-the last good governor we had.
Orr was a mediocre governor but still had some good accomplishments as governor. He was a good friend of George HW Bush so you can probably guess what kind of RepubliCon he was.
We can thank Orr for the Subaru plant. We can also thank him for being such an underwhelming governor that he was replaced by Socialist Evan Bayh.
I didn’t like Robert Orr but I would pay money to have him back as governor today instead of Goofy Mike Braun.
You need to ‘meet’ our dear friend here, JWoo…she knows all the ins and outs of corrupt Hoosier politics.
I would love to see some American drug manufacturing rather than relying on China. Or Europe for that matter.
India is a huge drug manufacturer, closely followed by Indonesia.
I have read that India gets a lot of its raw drug materials from China.
Better them than China!
Better made in America!
Yes, and a huge manufacturer of illegal pharmaceuticals (that are usually placebos). I just saw a report on it and had no idea. Unfortunately, high pharma drug prices force Americans to go to Mexico to buy drugs that may or may not have the actual ingredients in them. Most of these are made in India and an interview with a “manufacturer” of them (an old guy in a house making them by hand) admitted it was only filled with a placebo ingredient.
“45” felt very strongly about that….
Or India.
I came across a headline this morning where Pfizer CEO said they were going to onshore some drug making to avoid tariffs.
About time. God knows they made enough to afford it with their clot shots.
From a newsletter I just signed up for yesterday, after reading it because another treeper posted a link a day or two ago:
“….The media is waiting for us to rebel against the Terrible Orange Man because of rising consumer good prices. They’ll be waiting a long time. We lived through the pandemic’s totally useless and unnecessary supply-chain crisis. We’ll get through this without breaking a sweat.
Trump is not leaving prices to chance. He’s juiced domestic oil production, opened federal forests for timber harvesting, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week announced a new “Affordability Czar.” Also, energy products (oil, gas, and electricity) were exempted from all tariffs….”
(A few more choice paragraphs on the tariff subject in this post)
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/far-away-tuesday-march-4-2025-c-and
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/far-away-tuesday-march-4-2025-c-and?r=clqu6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I’m not sure what an “Affordability Czar” can do. One thing I would suggest, is work to bring down regulatory burdens on homebuilding, and encourage modular rather than site-build home manufacturing.
And another good idea is getting rid of pharmacy benefits managers who often hike drug prices 50x what they would be.
Should the situation with Mexico prove, intractable, and pacifying the terrorists gets difficult, moving the border south fifty miles will give us a lovely buffer zone.
We’d encompass probably almost all the Maquilladoras in that fashion, and find ourselves with hundreds of factories on our hands, ready for investment by the likes of Honda and other trusted manufacturers and of course by American companies themselves.
While we need to build a great many factories in the Mainland to reshore manufacturing, that will take time, and there are a significant number available and ready to compensate our losses dealing with the bloody intransigence of our Southern neighbor; nice of ’em to concentrate all those factories near our border like that though.
We will also attract industries from Europe as the price of LNG (on which they are depending) continues to be high. However, I fully believe that the Europeans will eventually realize that they can get much cheaper Russian oil and gas….which may be an EU incentive for peace in Ukraine. Seems like they are taking a long time recognizing this.
So many are decrying our walking away from our spoiled dependents.
It really is the best way to get some to grow up.
Often the only way.
They are spoiled, lazy, and arrogant.
I know where a few empty CAT factories are…
Reshoring Industry needs to be a National Emergency Crash program.
Locating and matching opportunities should be an office within that.
Amen…Operation Warp Speed 7 captain…no time to tarry on these pressing manufacturing issues to save our economy and country.
And let’s get some crash courses going in our schools together with job placement offices. That’s the way they did in my day, why did we stop?
Interesting idea
Every one of those factories was built to exploit and cheat us and empower our enemies.
Karma, Amigos!
Super idea.
time fort all those traitor companies who left our soil for china and else where to come back…..
Wait a sec!!! I thought “trump” didn’t know what he is doing and Mexico was going to show him how its done….
Mexico is going to show itself ‘how it’s done’… they’re implementing new tariffs, and our reciprocal deal will instantly bring ours on them up to that new higher level. Canada is doing exactly the same thing…
They are shooting themselves in both feet…
both linked on the next page here.
I chuckle at Canada threatening to cut off electricity to America. Evidently they haven’t thought that one through… that’s going to boomerang on them when they’re not making any money off of us.
We need to do away with utility monopolies.
Ohio, huh? Then with Vivek as governor can we expect Canadian H1B workers? No limits on how long they can stay here, unlike the H1Bs from other countries.
Vivek has a very different idea of what America First means, as you may recall.
Yeah, he’s far too much of an Indian (asian)
Culture Counts.
As does citizenship rooted in multiple generations of experience with a country.
In his case, it’s caste.
Conventional wisdom had it that you didn’t want to buy a car that was manufactured in one of the Mexican plants, rather than in the US.
Not out of patriotism alone, the Mexican ones were inferior.
Or beer for the same reason
Economists are expensively educated… that is the beginning and end of their usefulness.
Thomas Sowell is the exception!
Now if Toyota would just move the Tacoma production back to the U.S. from Mehico
I don’r think many car makers will come back to America. Between higher Labor costs, Tariffs on Metals they need, Tariffs on imported parts to build, Onerous regulations and taxes. It will be a wash. Better to stay where they are, sell to the world, and let US American pay the higher price.
From all the posts supporting the Tariffs. Seems people are gladly accepting they are getting a Yuge Tax increase.
I hope President Trump gives us a large Income tax cut and other tax relief, to make up for the Tariffs gouge to our wallet.
Tax cuts and getting rid of regulations would go a long way to attract manufacturing back as well. But as fast as Trump cuts taxes and regulations. Some other administration a few years from now will levy them again.
It will be hard to get these big manufactures back to America without Stability in our government, Laws. and regulations.
You’re overdosing on Liberal media. It’s not good to be a parrot.
https://time.com/7263328/us-auto-industry-could-be-collateral-damage-trump-trade-wars/
Toyota just moved their Tacoma production from the US(non union facility) to Mexico last year. Bring it back. By the way, when President Trump put on Tariffs last time prices fell to US consumers over time
There might be a use for those corrupt unions…get ’em to lobby to open American vehicle factories.
Part of PDJT’s plan for those who open up/keep open businesses in the USA then he is going to get them a 15% corporate tax rate which is phenomenal.
With that savings they can then afford to pay their employees a fantastic wage. Then, once we get the money bleeding/theft under control in the Federal Government MY OPINION is that personal income tax will be eliminated. That will give Americans a ton more money in their pockets which will increase demand for goods and services.
We have been taxed to death to subsidize other people’s and other country’s lifestyle. He is ending that.
All he is doing is cutting out the THEFT OF MONEY FROM American business and American citizens. Business taxes and individual income taxes kept rising to the point of ridiculousness because THE WORLD WAS STEALING OUR MONEY. Once that ends then the need to confiscate more and more of our money is gone.
All of this needs to be codified. This has to include monthly DOGE audits. We did not get here overnight but we only have a year or two to get this party started.
These demons know that, at worst, they hunker down for 4 years and then get back to what they do best after PDJT is gone.
I have to believe that PDJT and his Team have a long term plan to keep these people from returning to their thieving. There is so much rot in our government.
Your analysis is spot on and some type of Sunshine Laws will be extremely useful in making transparency mandatory. Knowing the books are available to the public at any time will curtail a lot of the fraud and wasteful spending. Florida has a good model for those laws which can be tweaked for the Feds.
As Sundance has posted many many times over the past 6 years the tariffs had little to no impact on American consumers, so there’s no reason to think they would this time either.
Yes. Let’s say that you want to import a product of yours into the USA.
The tariff is charged to the manufacturer from whatever country you manufactured it.
You have the choice of passing that tariff onto the consumer but eventually someone else is going to move their business into the USA to avoid the tariff AND enjoy a 15% business tax rate.
If you choose to pass the tariff tax onto the consumer then you run the risk of people rejecting your product and using an American made one (MY CHOICE) or doing without.
I look forward to being to buy American made from beginning to end product even if I have to pay more. I am tired of cheap crap that barely lasts. Samsung being one of the worst appliance makers ever created.
Sundance said they didn’t raise prices.
He also said they a actually lowered prices due to China devaluing its currency to absorb the tariffs.
So the impact was positive, and will be much more so now as the response to move manufacturing here will be much stronger this time around.
Go away
A business tax decrease to 15% for American production may well attract them. Remember how many businesses offshored before TCJA?
That is what happens when the electorate gets complacent. Remember that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
While many of the Toyota vehicles sold in the US are built in US manufacturing plants, 100% of RAV4 production is in Canada & Tacomas in Mexico.
Yep, and I have been a Tacoma guys since 91 (except for 3 lapses of judgement.)
So?
500 billion from Apple, 100 billion from TSMC, 500 billion from Oracle AI investment. This alone would warrant another term for any President.
So wish Pres. Trump could have 4 more years after this to see it all realized.
Now perhaps someone can persuade Mondelez to move its Oreo production BACK to Chicago and rehire the 600 people it layed off in 2016 when they moved their Oreo production to Mexico. Hey, if you can build a new production line in Mexico, you can build one in Chicago.
600 production jobs at about $25 per hour, times 600 jobs, is $30 million in cash, every year, year in year out, that Mondelez took out of the Chicago economy when it moved to Mexico for their cheaper labor. Cheap Oreos that your out-of-work neighbor can’t afford to buy.
TARIFF THEM!!!
They moved Hostess brand to Mexico too
Nabisco left Naperville years ago…personally, am not fond or Oreo’s…Nutter Butter and Lorna doone….
I buy Aldi cookies, they’re cheap and tasty. That is to say I used to. Now I started making my own cookies to avoid the additives.
So I am just going to say it. I pray that all these newly created jobs (including the new semiconductor one in AZ) go to actual US Citizens not cheap Visa labor…
PDJT has repeatedly said that they do not get the 15% corporate tax rate if they do not hire AMERICANS. They have to build in America AND hire Americans. Two parts.
Pray Harder.
https://arizonasuntimes.com/news/taiwan-chip-giant-given-billions-by-biden-used-h-1b-visas-to-hire-over-60-foreign-workers-in-arizona-including-accountants/tpappert/2024/12/27/
yeah, that is what I am talking about…and there is not stipulation to get the tax break or any type of requirement to hire American workers for any of these newly created role…
Are you and Auminer tag teaming us with stupidity? There is one more of your team that seems to be missing right now. I guess that it will show up soon enough.
That was BIDEN. This is PDJT-MAGA. Big difference. Good grief.
Yes there is. You have to both build here, and use Americans to get the tax cuts.
SO the facility is already in AZ and had gotten 6.6 billion from Biden Admin?
This Reuters article (most detailed article I found) gives some pertinent info about the AZ deal. The next 5 plants includes a research hub, will mainly be construction and site manager jobs over 4 years. After that not sure who gets the jobs. The first plant did receive a grant from the CHIP act under Biden.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-ceo-meet-with-trump-tout-investment-plans-2025-03-03/
Good point. I have visited factories on American soil and staffed 100% with illegals. Try doing that in their countries, or even here with heritage Americans. You’ll be sued into bankruptcy.
The Honda plant down in SW Indiana off US 41is a huge facility already and there is another one at Greensburg, IN. off I-74
Maybe it’s just me, but I think Honda is wasting their money by “turning its Ohio facilities, including the Marysville Auto Plant, into an “EV hub.”” Electric vehicles are and have always been limited utility, good for short distances and maybe light freight delivery, not long trips and heavy trailers. Yes, I am well aware of the class 7 and 8 electric vehicles, I have seen them and know what the required infrastructure is.
If a person wants to buy one, great, do it, there are people who don’t want to.
So? They can build in the USA or build in MX. They are still going to build. Under PDJT, no one is forcing us to buy an EV. He has removed those madates.
I am not an electric car fan. However, the speed with which they are making improvements in battery function and charging, there may be a future for them.
Yippee!!!
One should have more faith in Japanese built cars than US built ones to be honest.
The Japanese culture just has a different attitude of manufacturing with Kaizen (continuous improvement) and such
This does not seem to replicate into American factories.
Maybe it will change, but the quality does not compete (look at reliability figures of cars)
Not exactly true.
When the Japanese market was smaller, it had greater control over quality control. The larger they get, the less hands-on quality care gets.
Just look at the Toyota Tundra as just one example of many of what the industry called growing pains:
The main problem reported with recent Toyota Tundras, particularly the 2022 and 2023 models, is a potential for engine failure due to manufacturing debris left inside the new twin-turbo V6 engine, leading to a large recall where Toyota is replacing affected engines; other issues include complaints about interior quality, inconsistent gas pedal response, and some reported transmission programming issues
I keep my cars a long time. I find Japanese cars far superior in durability and maint needs than American. If you trade in often, American is great. If you want a car to last 15 years? Not so good.
Totally agree on classic Japanese vehicles and how well they were built to last. Simple and effective in their design and capability. Had a small Isuzu pickup 5 speed which ran forever and served us well for about 15 years. Let a friend borrow it to move stuff and it was wrecked. The insurance fixed it including a new paint job and it ran another 5 years until another “borrower” totaled it and was finally scrapped. What a great little beast of a machine and I still miss its functionality and reliability. The original cost was $9800 and it was worth it’s weight in gold too.
”…Honda Shifts…”
First gear, it’s alright (Honda, Honda, go faster, faster)
Second gear, I lean right (Little Honda, Honda, go faster, faster)
Third gear, hang on tight (Honda, Honda, go faster, faster)
Faster, it’s alright
One of my earliest favorite cars was a two-cylinder Honda 600, essentially a Kei car.
Jerks at High School would pick it up and put it sideways in my parking spot.
I rigged a switch to blow the horn to put a stop to that.
I sometimes forgot to turn that off before I drove off, it honked loud and long as the car leaned on a turn, near a pretty sunbather in her yard, that put a stop to forgetting the horn.
I had a ‘71 Honda 600. Great little car! 40-50 mpg was hard to beat. The car hated my husband (wouldn’t start for him half the time) and loved me (I never had any problems with it). We named it Hagar the Horrible; Haggie for short. 😂
They were ideal for a little mayhem here and there.
Park path bollards weren’t even worth slowing down for.
I still adore tiny cars, they don’t make any such any more, well, here, they canceled every single economy car line sold in the US during the Plandemic as they were looking at forcing us into EV’s and Fifteen Minute Gulags with a substantially reduced population too . . .
He He He I may have been one of those Jerks. VW bugs were fun to turn sideways too. The bumpers even had handles on them to make the job easier.
Ford Girl here…
Dating yourself!
Why are they ‘scrambling’…they knew it was coming?
If we ever get into a war with China and friends we will need to have our manufacturing base here at home. Food, medicine, steel, cars, all of it should be here at home.
Yes and I would like to see the pharmaceutical companies announce they will make drugs here. So far I haven’t heard anything along those lines, but maybe RFKJr. Is working that angle for Pres. Trump.
Phizer statement this morning regarding onshoring.
Well good and bad on Pfizer…good they will be in the US, but bad if we are not strictly overseeing their production, quality and testing. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt to start since RFKJr. Is in the house.
Eli Lilly is committing to making drugs in US..https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-plans-more-double-us-manufacturing-investment-2020
Hope they will make ivermectin there someday soon
This morning, the Times began a rolling “breaking news” story headlined, “Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China snap into effect.” Shares of German automakers with Mexican manufacturing plants tumbled in early trading this morning, as huge tariffs against China, Canada, and Mexico came into effect. And European stock markets plummeted.
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Oh, no, Europe and Mexico are experiencing a stock market crash. Guess that Thursday meeting of how to fund the Ukraine war to step up to take the US’s place is not gonna happen now.
YAY!!!! Then you must be overjoyed at the 1400 point drop and falling fast, in the DJIA as well. Since the Tariff news broke yesterday.
Got Gold?
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/djia
The difference is, the stock market “CAN” affect the US, but the stock market “DOES” affect Europe.
MAGA is less interested in beefing up the stock market. We’re way more interested in beefing up Main Street market, which just means that we expect the stock market will have to adjust to the new reality.
Too bad all the people that depend on their 401K and other market investments, to spend on main street. Wont be there to support the Main Street Markets.
America is very dependent on the stock market.
And the stock market will recover. Look at a long term chart of the DJIA and report back. Dips happen.
Relax. The market always reacts aggressively to news. It’s like the same people who were freaking out as the market was tanking during COVID. A lot of people unloaded their positions. Look how that worked out.
I love this rationale that we can’t do anything to change the status quo. Oh the market will drop, Canada/China will get mad, prices will rise. Not to mention idiots screeching like hyenas about dead weight being cut from the bloated federal government. Sometimes you have to accept some short term pain to effect positive change. You have half the country who thinks it’s fine running $2T annual deficits as if the party will never end.
And newsflash for you, gold is a horrible investment. Use the dip right now to buy cheaper shares.
Wait until April 2nd when the Reciprocal Tariifs on all global countries take effect. PDJT and Mr. Bessent are giving them all time to pullback on their unfair trade tariffs against the US. Will see who does what but when those hit Europe, India, China, Canada, etc..their economies will take a nosedive and some may not recover.
If they remove their tariffs then hey, no problem we will remove ours. Fair is fair with a dose of your own medicine. Time to stop the abuse and stop the vampires from sucking the life out of our beloved country.
China is fully prepared to meet Tariffs head on . The last time when Trump layed Tariffs on China. China devalued their currency. This time they will not. They will keep their Yuan stable. They intend to use these tariffs to take on the dollar, and knock it off its place as the worlds reserve and replace it. Ain’t Trade wars fun
Again, you’re overdosing on moonbat media. It’s not doing you any favors.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/china-deflation/
China made a really big mistake. Their abortion policy was too effective, and now they don’t have a clue on how to recover. That’s why they have large swaths of cities that are complete ghost towns. China is teetering on the edge of oblivion. Their tariffs are only for show, nothing that has any teeth to it.
moonbat media.????
I am ODing on History. Punitive Tariffs and their resulting trade war have never worked out well. Oft times trade war leads to the real thing.
Are we repeating history? It often Rhymes.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smoot-hawley-tariff-act.asp
I doubt anybody that’s halfway serious would claim that farmers were the ones that caused The Great Depression. How ridiculous. Even your own article says as much.
NOT PUNITIVE TARIFFS. Reciprocal tariffs.
We charge them what they charge us. If they remove their tariffs then we will remove ours.
Isn’t it your shift up yet?
This person is a troll. Not even worth engaging with them.
I am no troll Have been posting here for years. I am MAGA who has supported President Trump since the primaries in 2016.
Just because I dont support Tariffs you call me a troll?
Jees cant anyone have an opinion and honest discussion around you you?
I give my opinion and support it with creditable links
All you can do is call me names?
I thought only liberals did that.
Continuously screeching about tariffs in every post isn’t making any positive contribution here. We heard you multiple times: The world will end because of tariffs. That’s your opinion, and it sounds like you may be better suited by listening to the far left mainstream media. President Trump has spoken for years about imposing tariffs. If you’ve been a supporter, I’m sure you’ve heard him discuss this. Your posts sound completely unhinged, which is why you’re getting such a negative reception.
I am talking about Tariffs because. Tariffs are going to cause bigger problems. It is these punitive Tariffs and sanctions weaponizing dollar that will kill our economy.
Starting a trade war will not make the USD very popular.
Because we have weaponized the worlds reserve currency by Tariffs and sanctions. The dollar has fallen from being used in 75% of world trade. To 58% of trade today. That is one of the reasons inflation is so high.
If we continue to make the dollar toxic with Tariffs and Sanctions. Nations will just dump the dollar as the worlds reserve. Sending all those dollars in countries foreign reserves back to the US increasing currency supply and causing wild inflation.
This is exactly what China is counting on and will do its best within BRICS and the world to see that happens. They have been planning for this.
By not devaluing the Yuan and keeping it stable. They plan on replacing the dollar as an alternate Reserve Currency. As the dollar becomes unstable from the trade war.
You can call me crazy for what I am saying. But I am only repeating what China has said they are going to do. They have warned us about levying Tariffs and sanctions and are now prepared to act.
Like Russia. China follows through with their long range plans.
The USD has fallen from a high almost $110.oo on Jan 20th 2005
to $105.5 today because of the Tariffs. Take that for what its worth.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-keeps-yuan-stable-against-093000109.html
Maybe China is warning about tariffs because they know how detrimental they can be to their own economy? I support 100% tariffs on China. They lie, cheat, and steal and cannot be trusted. If we need cheap slave labor that badly, there are options within Asia. We should be doing everything we can to destabilize their economy and inflict as much economic damage as possible.
I agree that long-term tariffs with Europe and Canada may not be optimal, but they certainly are a good bargaining tool. They are reporting that a concession of some type has already been reached.
Why don’t you link an to an article by PDJT and Howard Lutnick on tariffs?
Canada has been tariffing the heck out of the USA and they are still there.
We shall all find out in time…many people will be buying less Chinese goods overall and consumerism is on the downswing. Your perspective has been analyzed and scrutinized by those experts above my pay grade, however we are now in a downward trajectory where if we do nothing to turn our economy around, we will decline further.
Let’s see what happens.
I am waiting for some American company or a made in America foreign company to make a small, really affordable gasoline engine car that has very, very few electronics. Roll down your own windows, look before you back up, check your own tire pressure and oil occasionally, use your phone GPS or buy a map. I truly believe that car makers could make a car that was under $10,000, simple to repair.
The globalists are the ones who want the electronics and the tracking and the expense of chips so fewer people can afford to move around without surveillance. The car companies love the fact that the new cars have to have expensive repairs, expensive parts, so they can make continued profits. And of course, the car repair guaranteers who want to sell you a plan for hundreds every year.
Compliance with Federal regulations have dramatically increased the cost and complexity of the automobiles we are ALLOWED to purchase.
Go to “Eric Peters autos” for years worth of succinct articles from a Libertarian viewpoint.
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/category/politics/
I agree and eventually may look into buying a refurbished older model car with no bells or whistles. We don’t need all the surveillance apps in a car, with sensors for every function and annoying stats being calculated. Yes, some people want all that but the simple format has its place also. Maybe someone will capitalize on your simplified concept and fill a niche market.
People should not be using computer touchscreens while they are driving, it’s the same as texting and a dangerous distraction.
I wanna row my own gears!
Automatics suck the soul out of an engine, and EV’s have no soul to begin with.
My first car was a ‘68 Chevy Nova, with a “3 on the tree” shifter. Tough getting that car into reverse, but it was fast and fun! Who needs sensors and apps anyway?
’64 Ford Falcon, 3 on the tree for me too.
I had already been driving trucks and tractors on the hobby farm for years.
I had 2 ’64 Falcons… <3 LOVED them <3
I’d buy another one in a Heartbeat.
Ford did that. The ford maverick.
$20,000 They could not make enough of them. Orders were out for a year. People started reselling theirs for ten to fifteen thousand dollars more than they gave for it. Dealers got caught selling people’s pickups that had been ordered, with deposits, for more money.
Some idiot at ford says lookie here we can get 30-40 thousand tor these and get rich. Well, they may could have but the stupid idiots put all of the crap nobody wants on them so now they are just another piece of electronic junk sitting on fords lots for $40,000 a piece.
Bean Counters Suck.
Honda thinks the Mexico “fentanyl problem” won’t be going away anytime in the next 10 years or whatever.
President Trump’s magic wand strikes again 🙂
Honda’s in my driveway built by Americans in Marysville, Ohio and Lincoln, Alabama…
Our entire family has Toyotas –Driveway during Holidays looks like a Used Toyota dealership
I have had a little Nissan pickup since 1988. About fifteen years or so ago when things got hot about buying American a guy with a dodge pickup was giving me heck about my truck. I walked over to his pickup and pointed to the little round sticker in the corner of the window that said Made In Mexico.
Our first vehicle was a Nissan Sentra. Ran great, fine to drive with front wheel drive but had to get a bigger vehicle when kids came along.
Canada will be cutting off power to several states in response. Thing is, it won’t do much unless there’s undue cold. Plus we supply them with power too. Nothing is stopping Trump from withholding power. We need an independent electrical grid like yesterday.
Doug Ford is a real POS.
What bothers me the most is how the mainstream media and corporate world are in near cahoots to sabotage President Trump. It’s all doom and gloom over tariffs: “You can’t impose tariffs, they’ll increase prices. We’ll start trade wars. China will be angry at us. We’ll be bullying other countries.” They’re like petulant little tyrants, always focused on the short-term. They don’t give a damn about the “middle class,” and yet they’re so concerned about prices. Now we’ll have institutional investors throwing tantrums for the next few days, so expect some downward movement in the stock market.
I love the concept of tariffs. There is nothing more American to me. Who doesn’t want to reinvigorate our manufacturing and make as many things as possible here? And yes, I understand that there are no viable alternatives at the moment for certain electronics. You have to start somewhere.
Maybe my only criticism would be to see more cohesive messaging from President Trump and some other members of the administration. I often hear PT say that “they are ripping us off” or “there are drugs are pouring across the border.” I heard Peter Navarro talk about how Canada and Europe really ARE ripping us off, and I wish PT would cite the same examples (particularly for the auto industry).
I see good things ahead, even though I know it will likely be a rough ride for the next couple of months.
If you think about it Russia gets the same treatment as the US under Trump.
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Let’s cut all the crap auto regulations, and then encourage an American-only company to make inexpensive internal combusion engine mechanical-only cars and trucks!
I suspect that people would buy the stuff in droves, and, by the way, it’s also a “national security issue”.
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You’re being way too logical. Unfortunately, our country is loaded with naysayers who love insisting that we can’t build anything here. I’m referring to the corporate sector, mainstream media, and even the general public. My favorite are the left leaning people who love labor unions and a “living wage.” Mention how important it is to bring manufacturing back, and they’ll immediately start screeching about how it is isn’t possible. Labor costs are too high here, and we must keep importing Chinese junk or civilization will collapse. You can’t make it up.
The VERY easy way to bring down ALL prices is to eliminate the ethanol requirement for fuel. The price of grain doubled in October 2007 when the Renewable Fuel law was passed by Congress and Bush. It actually happened overnight. Food pricing rose accordingly. Gas rose accordingly. Pollution increased because the ethanol only has 78k Btu instead of 129k.
Repeal the law and food and fuel prices drop and so does “pollution”. Win Win across the board.
The chief defender of that nasty practice is scheduled for composting in the very near future.
I consider the first sin of ethanol to be raping the land for no good purpose.
There are so so many other sins involved, but destroying arable land for fuel in service of a profitable scam is the worst.
Big Ag owns every single politician in Washington and most of the bureaucracies that pretend to regulate the industry. Been going on for many decades. This is nothing new.
Ethanol fuel and high-fructose corn syrup are just two of many scams put upon our people by Big Ag and their bootlickers in Congress.
Take your Winamins every day. 😁❤️
Trump’s Tariffs Will Create Millions of Jobs
https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/03/trumps-tariffs-will-create-millions-of-jobs
Canada retaliating with more tariffs… will only hurt them more…the definition of “reciprocal” is apparently not yet understood by the SnowMexican MIS-leadership.
Hearing lots of emoting on the network news about tariffs hurting “our major trading partners.” Those same news heads didn’t give a shit when those same “major trading partners” underbid THEIR major trading partner’s workers to hijack our American manufacturing jobs. F them. Let them live on maple syrup and jalapenos.
Think of them as corporatist talking heads disguised as media/journalists. The big globalist club is telling them what to say so our economy continues to tank as they lead us to one world governance. They have not read the new America First Manual yet and are still on the old playbook.
US Dollar buys Canadian…
$1.45 so Canada is going to pay for a large amount of the tariff when their exports cost us less to buy.
Same thing with Mexico!
Was supposed to move Beginning 2027. So that’s no promise at all….if reps lose they will say ah yeah back to Mexico. Make them sign a binding agreement to Indiana.
I recently restored a 1969 VW Beetle. 53 horsepower. Rear engine sits over drive wheels so the car is great in snow conditions. No radiator. No water pump. No power steering or power brakes. 4- speed manual with reverse. Simple carburetor. Distributor. No electronic ignition. Not a single computer chip in the car. I did install a modern, front disc brake set. Great gas mileage !
The radio is AM only (mine only picks up German radio broadcasts).
The air conditioning consists of two wing windows on the doors. Built in Wolfsburg, Germany. Well-engineered vehicle, made mostly of 18 gauge steel and has chromed, steel bumpers. Replacement parts are widely available and modestly priced. Easy to work on with good repair manuals and plenty of how-to, youtube videos.
No back-up camera. You use the mirrors and turn your head.
These cost about $1,500 when brand new.
The old Beetles were built so tight, they could float.
Some newer VWs leak like battleships. Go figure.
On those air-cooled ones, you could literally bolt on more displacement and horsepower on them by changing out the cylinders. There were actually some ‘hot-rodded’ Beetles out there back in the day.
MAAA !!!
Make America America Again !!👍
I remember the Honda autos coming over in the very early 1970s. My recollection is that they came over after Toyota (in the 60s) and Datsun (Nissan).
Tiny, ugly as heck, and they would eventually rust very badly. But generally dependable.
A friend of mine had one that had caught the rust. I threatened to spray it with Liquid Wrench at night. And that all he would find next morning would be a puddle.
They’ve come a long way since then.
I had one and loved it, Honda N600, not a spot of rust.
Tied three truck tubes to the roof, over doubling its height, looked a sight, and hit the river with sibs.
Good Times.
I preferred the smaller entry level European roadsters to the small Japanese makes back then, if only for the performance and road manners on some. An MGB or even a Karmann Ghia could be a fun back road drive.
But the big problem with many of those Europeans was keeping them running! Especially the Brits and some Italians (looking at you, Fiat).
Among small imports even then, the Japanese were more dependable runners. So if I had to use a small foreign car to get to work every day, I’d probably opt for a Japanese. Or a still-bulletproof Beetle.
But I was daily driving full-size big block Americans back then, and was more concerned about accidentally running over them on the interstates.
And there was a mini boycott of Japanese vehicles when those 3 makers flooded the US markets. People wanted to protect the US auto industry and pushed buy American.
Chevy, Ford and Pontiac had some stiff competition, but the Japanese were tough to beat in terms of price and mileage.
The auto industry responded and set out to build cheaper and practical vehicles. However, they had been building muscle cars and not great on mileage and ergonomic functionality. So they made US crap cars like AMC Gremlins, Ford Pintos, Vegas and other disastrous models that were rejected by consumers. The Japanese have proven their vehicles are on another level altogether.
Pintos and Gremlins weren’t too bad, to be honest. The Pinto was a very simple vehicle, and easy to work on.
Those Vegas were garbage, however.
But back then, it was hard to jam a growing family into one of those, especially on the longer trips. That was a job for a ’65 or ’70 Caprice or Galaxie wagon.
The ’73 embargo changed everything, even more than the earlier ’emissions’ years.
aka
@akafaceUS
One of the best videos I’ve seen so far explaining the tarrifs for those that are confused as to what’s going on.
Video linked…
That’s why *reciprocal* tariffs is so genius… when they retaliate with another higher tariff on US…
they riase their own tariffs again too.
Built-in Boomerang.
Made in America: Trump Racks Up $3 Trillion of Investments in US Economy
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/04/trump-3-trillion-investment-american-economy
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
JUST IN: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says there may be a new deal with Canada and Mexico as soon as tomorrow following productive conversations with the two nations.
“I think he’s gonna work something out with them. It’s not gonna be a pause…”
“We’re gonna probably be announcing that tomorrow. So somewhere in the middle will likely be the outcome.”
“The president is moving with the Canadians and Mexicans, but not all the way.”
Video linked…
Canada’s version of Ron! DeeSantis (a.k.a. Con Inc.) has to say something.