Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "Trump tariffs endanger another 25,000 auto jobs in Germany" video.

  1. Mercedes, BMW, and VW each have one assembly plant in the US. I have not looked at the content labels on a US built Merc or BMW, but would suspect that many of the internal components, engine, transmission, and such, are imported. In VW's case, the engines are imported from Mexico. Stellantis only imports a handful of Alfas, Masers, and Fiat 500es. Ford imports nothing from Europe. Based on what happened when Trump was last in office, and imposed a protectionist tariff on Korean built laundry washers, US made cars will see their prices increased to match the tariff inflated prices of imports, so there will be no net loss of competitiveness for imports, unless Trump also imposes a limit on the number of cars imported, before the tariff is stepped up to a wholly impossible level. Trump's washing machine tariff had two steps: 20% and 50%. Once the 50% level was reached, Korean washers were no longer available. The other variable is the incoming Trump administration is openly, proudly, anti-EV.. My theory is Musk has lost interest in Tesla, beyond using Tesla owners as beta testers for his AI systems.
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