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Luxury cars, watches, toys not being shipped to US over tariffs — here are some of the brands being held back
NY Post ^ | 04/07/2025 | Michael Kaplan and Lisa Fickenscher

Posted on 04/08/2025 6:18:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The supply of many foreign-made goods into the US is likely to grind to a halt as a result of President Trump’s tariffs, sources told The Post Monday.

A baseline tariff of 10% was applied to many countries Saturday, with heftier percentages applied to the “worst offenders,” which levy high tariffs on US goods they import, in two days.

Companies producing everything from toys to luxury wristwatches said they are holding off shipping goods — risking America going from the land of plenty to the land of plenty unavailable.

The first luxury items to leave circulation: Jaguar, Range Rover and Land Rover vehicles, all manufactured in the UK.

“I cannot risk putting any product on the water that might incur [high] tariffs as implemented and threatened by the president,” Jay Foreman, chief executive of Basic Fun, which makes toys in China, told The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: back; brands; cars; held; luxury; shipped; tariffs; toys; us; watches
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We are all going to die
1 posted on 04/08/2025 6:18:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Easy fix.

Charge of the tarrif at the time of exit from their country


2 posted on 04/08/2025 6:21:24 AM PDT by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rovers and jags are being held back?

How will traffic throughout New England ever form of one of these aren’t on fire in the left lane?

Where will we get our continuous supply of British cars to fill our landfills?


3 posted on 04/08/2025 6:21:45 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wow, Marie Antoinette would be proud!!


4 posted on 04/08/2025 6:22:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Mr. K

Bingo


5 posted on 04/08/2025 6:22:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not the Bee.


6 posted on 04/08/2025 6:22:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Nope


7 posted on 04/08/2025 6:22:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How will Gen X ever survive with out their Beemers and Land Rovers?


8 posted on 04/08/2025 6:24:07 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Doctor, doctor, will I die?”

“Yes, my dear, and so will I!”

Yep, you’re right. We are all going to die.

But they will die first.

And they know it.


9 posted on 04/08/2025 6:24:27 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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(Luxury cars, watches, toys not being shipped to US over tariffs )

No Faguar?

EXCELLENT!!


10 posted on 04/08/2025 6:26:29 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Guess who these people voted for in 2024? Not Trump.
Trump is a populist and nationalist not a globalist.
But as the economy broadly rebounds, these people will have their Bordeaux and Range Rovers.


11 posted on 04/08/2025 6:26:51 AM PDT by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: bray

They attack Telsa vehicles, we killed Range Rovers in the USA! Winning!


12 posted on 04/08/2025 6:27:10 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nothing there that we can’t do without.


13 posted on 04/08/2025 6:28:40 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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“Jaguar, Range Rover and Land Rover vehicles”

Why anyone would ever buy one of these over priced pieces of British crap has always amazed me.
These continue to be the most expensive to repair, unreliable and lowly ranked by Consumer Reports survey.
Yet people buy these products.


14 posted on 04/08/2025 6:29:41 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh no. This is almost as dire as if Hollywood went on strike. What shall we do? I was going to buy a Jag this afternoon. Argh! Leopards ate my face!


15 posted on 04/08/2025 6:31:54 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: woodbutcher1963

“Yet people buy these products.”

Still owning a ‘68 MGB purchased used in ~73, I learned my lesson long ago.

I don’t think facts on the ground have changed much since then.....


16 posted on 04/08/2025 6:34:17 AM PDT by Paladin2 ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t care


17 posted on 04/08/2025 6:35:01 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Celerity

Here in the south, if luxury cars can’t be shipped here it’ll be “women and minorities hardest hit” LOL (typed in my best Rush voice)


18 posted on 04/08/2025 6:36:42 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Whatever will the left do for slogans now?

Trump killed my Rolex?

Save the Jaguars?

Kill a Ford and buy a Land Rover?

19 posted on 04/08/2025 6:36:44 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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“I cannot risk putting any product on the water that might incur [high] tariffs as implemented and threatened by the president,” Jay Foreman, chief executive of Basic Fun, which makes toys in China, told The Post.

That's ok, Jay. I'm sure the Chinese and the Sudanese will buy them.

20 posted on 04/08/2025 6:39:41 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Burma Shave)
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