Trump announces 'permanent' tariffs on foreign cars

[jonne@infosec.pub]

Nobody wants American cars. I guess up until recently Tesla was the exception, but that was already changing before Musk decided to go full mask off.

[peteyestee@feddit.org]

Just nuke us.

[peteyestee@feddit.org]

His hand kind of looks brown like rotting meat.

[ramble81@lemm.ee]

So what defines a “foreign” car? BMW builds the X3 in South Carolina and VW builds their SUVs in Tennessee. However Ford builds the Bronco in Mexico. So which one will be tariffed?

[lwl@lemmy.world]

There's one in the garage of my apartment building. All i can think about when I see it is what a giant douche bag you have to be to buy something like that while living in a big city.

[evilcartyen@feddit.dk]

Under normal circumstances the car which crosses a border.

[federalreverse@feddit.org]

The Trump admin is doing its best to make sure that the US can no longer be measured. Those measures hit climate research and economics research both.

[remembertheapollo_@lemmy.world]

So Ford gets taxed while the “import” brand doesn’t. Another well thought out policy by this administration. My “foreign” car was built in Alabama.

[geodad@lemm.ee]

Toyota builds Camry, Avalon, RAV4, and Lexus in Georgetown, KY.

If it means foreign brands, that will fuck over a lot of red state workers, if he means foreign built, maybe not.

[zeppo@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, you're correct.

[archmageazor@lemmy.world]

I think IV catheters can cause skin discoloration, and the hand is a common place to put catheters. And he's an old bag of shit, he's probably in and out of hospitals as often as golf courses.

[takeda@lemm.ee]

It's on both, but just learned that apparently it won't impact the parts that going back and forth across the border. It looks like those additional tariffs are still planned on April 2nd.

[brochiminh@feddit.org]

Yeah. An ex coworker of mine deemed it necessary to drive such a wankpanzer in our medium-sized german city over the astonishing distance of 5 kilometres to/from work.

[orcrist@lemm.ee]

Oh Donald, nothing is permanent.

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

Those are even legal in Europe? Some dude imported one here, as an impulse buy, as he had won a large money prize on Euro Millions, and it had the nastiest of ends, as he jammed the thing between two building in a narrow street. The car was cut to pieces on the spot, to be removed. The rumour mill spoke of nearly 75.000€ to the trash.

[obi@sopuli.xyz]

NL has supposedly cracked down on the tax loophole which made these attractive to b entrepreneurs (something about imported vehicles), so hopefully we start seeing less of them over time.

[obi@sopuli.xyz]

I think you think this thread is talking about the cybertruck but they're just talking about regular pick up trucks.

[kuerbiskernoel@feddit.org]

You barely see any pick up trucks in Europe (or at least in Austria). I know like one or two farmers who have one and that's it.

People who like big cars buy SUVs here.

[obi@sopuli.xyz]

Unfortunately I do see them (a bit) in the Netherlands... Something them being a tax loophole for entrepreneurs (but they're supposedly closing it). Definitely niche though, indeed the emotional support vehicles are the big German SUVs...

[dutchkimble@lemy.lol]

I always see it as him unknowingly showing solidarity for the African community