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

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-tariffs-motor-vehicles-rachel-reeves-b2722273.html

by LoquaciousLord1066

28 comments

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

  2. 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. > 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. 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. 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.

  6. We need to hurt America so damn badly. Disgraceful fucking wankers

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. Asia & Europe need to band together and fuck over America

  12. 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.

  13. 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?

  15. 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.

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

  17. 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.

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

  19. 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? 

  20. 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.

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

  23. 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

  24. 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?

  25. 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

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

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

  28. 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.

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