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2025-03-22 Economy

Trump Effect: German Auto Giant Audi Looks to Move Production to U.S.

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Posted by Fred 2025-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1
The Art of the Deal strikes again.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-22 07:44|| 2025-03-22 07:44|| Front Page Top

#2 You can’t have an assembly plant operational before the end of the next four years. It just talk until they buy property.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-22 09:04|| 2025-03-22 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Precedent:

Toyota’s first manufacturing investment in the United States came in 1972 when the company struck a deal with Atlas Fabricators, to produce truck beds in Long Beach, in an effort to avoid the 25% "chicken tax" on imported light trucks. By importing the truck as an incomplete chassis cab (the truck without a bed), the vehicle only faced a 4% tariff.[9] Once in the United States, Atlas would build the truck beds and attach them to the trucks. The partnership was successful and two years later, Toyota purchased Atlas (which had been financially struggling) and it would eventually be renamed Toyota Auto Body California (TABC) as part of the company's Toyota Auto Body manufacturing subsidiary.[10]

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-22 09:36|| 2025-03-22 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently Audi is not seeing a lot of quality autoworkers or luxury auto buyers among their migrant population

Posted by Regular joe 2025-03-22 13:57|| 2025-03-22 13:57|| Front Page Top

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