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    Trump announces 25% tariffs on vehicle imports in fresh blow to Reeves

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    1. tiny-robot on

      And we will still keep on bending over for Trump – including getting King Charles involved.

    2. Shawn_The_Sheep777 on

      In 2023 we exported £7.8 billion worth of cars to the US. We only import £1.1 billion. We can’t just ignore this like we did with steel. We need to retaliate.

    3. socratic-meth on

      > The announcement raises fears of greater economic pain in the UK, whose largest vehicle export market is the US, having sold £6.4bn in motor vehicles to the country in 2023, according to the Office of National Statistics.

      Are we going to levy the same tariff on US car imports? How much is that likely to raise?

    4. KingThorongil on

      How is this a blow to anyone but Americans? It’s not targeting just Britain. It’s orange man, the twitter guy and bearded wannabe cheerleader against the world.

    5. Express-Doughnut-562 on

      This tariff is straight from Musk right? To encourage the purchase of *Tesler,* which are made in the states. Its tricky to retaliate because UK Teslas are made in China, but you have to feel that a specific targeting of Tesla vehicles is the way to get this reversed.

    7. sbourgenforcer on

      This sounds like an invitation to start taxes big tech. Amazon, Apple, Meta etc.

    9. dalehitchy on

      If the EU did this to us, the right would be calling them our enemy and begging the government for counter tarriffs.

      The fact that brexiters have put us in such a weak pathetic position that we don’t even dare do counter Tariffs is something I will never forgive.

    10. regretfullyjafar on

      Obviously it’s not ideal but is there not a bit of exaggeration about how bad this’ll be?

      Trump is doing this to everyone – which means everyone will be looking to export and import less to/from the US

      Will that not leave a vacuum of products which can be pretty easily filled by the exports which would have gone to the US?

      It’d be much worse if Trump were specifically targeting us rather than a blanket worldwide tariff

    11. Krabsandwich on

      Trump probably just bankrupted the US motor industry the three big indigenous manufacturers Ford, GM and Stellantis all have integrated supply chains with Canada and Mexico with parts and even entire vehicles being assembled outside the US.

      It takes roughly 2 years to build out the plant needed to relocate all that production to the US and roughly three years to train the workers. I have seen some estimates that the total cost to the manufacturers is in the ballpark of 50bil USD likely way more.

      It will hit everyone hard but the US auto industry will likely never really recover.

    13. djnattyd on

      Radical idea; STOP FUCKING TRADING WITH THE US!

      There are plenty of other countries around the world that we can get raw materials from and ship finished products to.

      I’ll be honest, I’ve never been the biggest fan of Americans in general. They’re arrogant, abrasive and clearly love the smell of their own farts but this fucking administration are a different level of wankers

      For all their faults, at least the Chinese government aren’t massive cunts just for the fucking sake of it.

    14. Better_Concert1106 on

      The glaring thing he fails to consider as the reason why for example Europe takes less American cars but America takes lots of, say, German cars, is that American cars are shit and nobody apart from Americans with their massive roads wants them. Oversized, inefficient and just awful.

      There’s a reason German brands like BMW and Mercedes are popular in the States.

    15. Many-Tourist5147 on

      And yet they’re still sucking his toes begging daddy trump for that “special relationship” rather than co-operating with our neighbours. Who could have seen that coming?

    17. Chris0288 on

      Can’t get into a tit for tat with senile overgrown manchild trump.
      Instead rejoin single market or customs union. Closer alignment with our actual closest trading partners please.
      Closer ties with Canada, will also annoy him.
      Legalise cannabis and get tax revenues from that.

      Stop being red tories.
      Stop being shite
      Acknowledge brexit was a massive mistake.
      Acknowledge we can’t actually trust a trump led America.

    18. ottoandinga88 on

      Blow to our economy surely? Again the economic narrative is bizarrely hyperfocused on one person

    19. skanderbeg_alpha on

      The simple answer is abolish the fascism fueled disaster that is Brexit.

      We don’t need to retaliate against the US by hurting British consumers more. We just export more to other trade partners like the EU.

    20. mzivtins_acc on

      Who cares if its a blow to this moron.

      We already got fked on VED, so I’m sure this waste of a human will hide the damage of that behind the American tariffs.

    21. PrometheusIsFree on

      The US simply has to make better cars. Competition encourages development and innovation. If there’s a limited market, the product quality will stagnate, and there will be no incentive to improve. US customers will just get what they’re given. The US car industry suffered because their competitors made better cars. Same with motorcycles. Tariffs aren’t the answer. They just hurt the consumer. Better design and quality are the answers. You sell US cars by making them better than the likes of VW and Toyota. No one should be using tariffs to strongarm customers into buying inferior products.

    22. Formal-Cucumber-1138 on

      France and Germany are only next door. We don’t or shouldn’t need Americans imports. Let’s tax, tax and tax America hard.

    23. ComprehensiveCat1407 on

      Oh my fuck, why IS EVERYTHING a “fresh blow” or “boost” to Reeves. This never happened with anyother Chancellor. It is so fucking weird and is pissing me off. Can the media ever be normal? 

    24. UJ_Reddit on

      What people are missing is its import. So it screws an American company like Ford as their vehicles are made in Mexico and Canada.

      So we and Europe can still import Ford or many other brands with no tariff. We might just need to buy it from a different factory.

    25. DennisAFiveStarMan on

      Man can this orange turd bite it already. Messing with my stocks every week

    27. DogsOfWar2612 on

      and because it’s the yanks doing this we’ll most probably ‘take it on the chin’ again as we did with steel as we’re pretty much the yanks wank sock at this point

    28. ok_not_badform on

      What vehicles are in the UK from USA? Jeep, Tesla, Ford? Unless this also applies to machinery equipment as well? Just interested on how this was effect the UK?

    29. EntireFishing on

      You can’t make agreements with Trump..he criticises his own agreements.. no blame here, we have to carry on as best we can while the USA destroys itself

    30. tipytopmain on

      I guess that’s one way for Trump to try and rig the market in Tesla’s favour.

    31. Frog_Idiot on

      Damn if only we had access to the largest trading bloc in the world, with free movement and trade.

    32. 19-12-12RIP on

      She is actually an idiot if she genuinely thought Trump wouldn’t just tariff us anyway. Appeasing him isn’t going to work.

    33. Only_Tip9560 on

      There must be reciprocal tariffs imposed. The MAGA pricks are literally laughing at us. Now is the time for strength and better relations with Europe.

    34. Moar_Rawr on

      I used to work in the payments team at Meta and it is a complete joke. Until Brexit they processed all non US ad sales through Ireland and paid an effective tax rate of 0%. They also have it structured so that the US entity owns the IP and foreign subsidiaries pay royalties. I was looking to add domestic processing in some countries and there was no business case because paying local taxes was an immediate revenue loss.

      After Brexit they have a UK entity but it is pretty much business as usual but with more work to get through the loopholes.

    35. toodog on

      you say put tariffs on the US product, the tariffs are paid by us the consumers. we can’t afford even more expensive items.