Posted on 08/30/2018 3:37:14 PM PDT by mandaladon
It is my understanding that there is a market in the EU for Jeeps and American pickups
They have to agree to IP Protections too, they are trying to low ball us.
Your are right the EU doesn’t make trucks. Just like the US does not make trucks. But VW does make a small truck in Europe.
So do you agree the US should drop the tariff on trucks? Because if the EU is not making trucks for the US market then the tariff is working. Unless you like tariffs because they raise revenue in which case this tariff is not working.
I think based on past exchanges you like the money tariffs raise as a way of funding spending for Social Security. Or do you want to tariffs to block imports so as to protect jobs?
What Euro auto mfgr. has a pickup truck (I assume) product US consumers would even buy in significant numbers?
Does that matter? If they do not have any trucks to sell in the US should the tariff be dropped? Or should the tariff remain to make sure there will never be any trucks sold in the US?
The USA makes a lot of trucks. We are the truck king.
Meant to say small truck. US mfg’s do not build a small truck.
You must tempt them with SUVs. First they’ll turn their noses up and say how ‘barbaric’ they are. Then some snooty European will get behind the wheel and be transformed.
Mexico, Canada and Europe initially insisted that they would not negotiate about trade “with a gun to the head.” But existing tariffs on steel and aluminum, and the specter of tariffs on automobiles, helped change their minds.
IOW, what they were doing there was lying. They'll do pretty much anything with a gun to the head. We know this, because we've seen the suicidal and other stupid things they do *without* a gun to their heads. Now they just come off as liars.
BTW, US auto tariffs are a small fraction of what EU auto tariffs are.
Thanks mandaladon.
The following “small/midsized” trucks are made in the USA: Tacoma, Frontier, Ridgeline, Colorado and the Ranger (FY2019)
Those are mid sized. The forward / doesn’t make them smal.
So your point is what? Keep the tariff to protect domestic makers from future competition from Europe or eliminate the tariff because there are no small trucks made by a European manufacturer?
The problem is small trucks get terrible MPG so people wised up and started buying bigger pickups if the MPG is virtually the same.
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