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A Modest Proposal: Balance Trade By Auctioning VINs
Even the most casual of TTAC readers will have noticed that we frequently feature stories about the strength of the Chinese economy and the increasing importance that China has to automakers...
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U.S. Customs Calls Ford’s Importing Transit Connect As Passenger Vehicle...
Fifty years ago, in a dispute over a German tariff on chicken imported from the United States, the U.S. government retaliated by slapping a 25% tax on imported trucks and vans, apparently to impact...
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Mexico Besting Japan, Canada In Auto Exports To The U.S.
Mexico’s auto industry is set to ship more product north to the United States than Japan and Canada by the end of 2015, in part due to the effects the North American Free Trade Agreement has had on...
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Musk: Tesla Will Build Cars In China Within Next Few Years
Though Tesla is now just delivering new vehicles to China, CEO Elon Musk predicts his company will build luxury electric vehicles in the burgeoning market within the next three to four years....
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Ide: Apathy, Not Policy, Is Behind GM’s Japanese Blues
Though General Motors is finding big success in China among its brands, the automaker is still a bit player in Japan, and not because of so-called nontariff hurdles. Automotive News reports Yanase...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Fears Hover Over Detroit Three
The Detroit Three are among those expressing concern over the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, specifically what it would do to the industry. Last week, both houses of Congress approved...
View ArticleUS Tire Makers Oppose New Restrictions On Chinese Tires – It’s A Union Thing
The United States International Trade Commission issued a split 3-3 ruling on a petition regarding Chinese tires filed by the United Steel Workers under U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty...
View ArticleDon’t Expect Us to Backpedal on Mexico Plans: Ford CEO
There’s something about billions of dollars in investment and carefully planned long-term product strategies that make it hard for an automaker to turn on a dime in the face of a threat. Ford Motor...
View ArticleToyota and Honda Play the Waiting Game After Ford Surprise
Tuesday’s surprise announcement by Ford, where it declared plans for a new Mexican assembly plant were as dead as disco, turned up the heat on other automakers. With President-elect Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleTrump Angers the Germans; BMW Won’t Pull a Ford With Its Mexican Plant
After being warned against producing vehicles in Mexico, German automakers are not scrambling to re-think their production plans. In an interview with the German publication Bild, President-elect Trump...
View ArticleNo Fixed Abode: The Perks (And Perils) Of Protectionist Policies
“Like any good capitalist, I firmly believe that automakers need competition to produce their best and most innovative work.” That’s what my colleague and occasional pal Stef Schrader on Jalopnik wrote...
View ArticleTrump Proposes 20-percent Tax on Mexican Goods to Pay for Wall; Other...
Consumer products and vehicles produced outside of the U.S. could see a big hike in sticker price if the Trump administration goes ahead with a proposed plan to tax Mexican goods — and eventually all...
View ArticleBMW Intends to Stay the Course in Face of New Tariff Proposal
BMW Group CEO Harald Krüger says the automaker fully intends on sicking with its current investment strategies in Mexico and the United States, even after President Donald Trump’s proposal to levy...
View ArticleDepending on the Automaker, a Border Tax Could Bump Sticker Prices by Thousands
Automakers are waiting with bated breath to see where the pieces land once President Donald Trump complete’s the country’s trade revamp. One proposal would see a border tax of 20 percent placed on...
View ArticleAs Trade Battle Looms, Mexico Has a Few Tricks up Its Sleeve
In the international poker game of NAFTA re-negotiations, U.S. President Donald Trump should not assume his Mexican opponent will be playing with a losing hand, an auto industry expert says. “I’m going...
View ArticleBeef Duty May Join Chicken Tax in the Barnyard, Would Raise Price of Euro...
Much to the chagrin of a couple of generations of small truck enthusiasts on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, the United States got into a bit of a trade tiff with France and Germany over a...
View ArticleLighthizer Confirmed as U.S. Trade Representative After Waiver Approval
I hope you’re fond of domestic automobiles. The Trump administration is setting the table to make importing cars more difficult with the U.S. Senate confirming Robert Lighthizer in an 82-14 vote as the...
View ArticleU.S. Is Intentionally Sabotaging NAFTA Trade Talks, Officials Claim
President Donald Trump entered into office threatening to abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement if the United States was not given a better deal immediately. But, after negotiations began, it...
View ArticleTrump is Talking Tariffs Again, Takes Aim at European Cars
President Donald Trump amplified his earlier threat of a global trade war this weekend by suggesting he would impose a tax on European cars if the EU countered his proposed steel and aluminum tariffs....
View ArticleSteel, Aluminum Tariffs Might Not Happen, Trump Says
As the U.S., Mexico, and Canada enter into the final day of the seventh round of NAFTA renegotiation talks, President Trump is offering his neighbors an incentive for signing a favorable deal. “Tariffs...
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