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Posted on 11/11/2025 1:24:35 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Last month, Trump announced a 25% tariff on imports of medium and heavy-duty trucks and truck parts, such as large pick-up trucks, moving trucks, cargo trucks, dump trucks, and tractors for eighteen-wheelers.
In a recent earnings call, Ford CEO Jim Farley thanked Trump for the newly announced tariffs on foreign cars and car parts.
“I’d like to thank President Trump and his team for the recent tariff policy developments, which are favorable to Ford as the most American auto manufacturer,” Farley said:
In addition, tariffs leveling the playing field for those imported medium and heavy-duty trucks is a positive for Ford because we are no longer disadvantaged for building every single one of our super duty trucks here in the United States. [Emphasis added]
Likewise, Ford placed an ad campaign in several newspapers backing Trump’s tariffs and vowing to continue building their cars in the United States.
“At our assembly plants in Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky, and Ohio, tens of thousands of [United Auto Worker] members put their expertise and pride into assembling Ford F-series trucks,” the ad reads. “In an era of complex supply chains, our commitment to the American workforce is unwavering. We believe the backbone of our economy is supported by American workers.”
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CNN, last week, admitted that Trump’s tariffs on the auto industry had not decimated such automakers as economists and auto executives claimed without evidence would happen.
“Automakers were close to panic when Trump announced plans for a 25% tariff on all imported vehicles, including those from Mexico and Canada, since all companies depend on imported parts to build at US assembly plants and almost all import from those neighboring countries,” the CNN report admits:
But it turned out it wasn’t as bad as they feared, as Trump continued to reduce the worst of the duties’ impact almost immediately. General Motors and Ford, which had forecast billions in annual costs, have each reduced those assessments. GM trimmed its $5 billion estimate by $500 million last month. Ford cut its estimated tariff cost for 2025 in half, from $2 billion to $1 billion. [Emphasis added]
Another claim repeated almost daily by talking heads but not founded in consumer price data is that consumers would pay higher prices because of the tariffs. But CNN admitted that auto “companies have not passed on the increased tariff costs to consumers, at least not directly.”
But will the SCOTUS allow those tariffs to survive?
Who knows? But the tariffs are not the boogeyman many said they would. In fact, all the claims about inflation caused by them have been proven not true.
The Dims forced Ford to go against most of their consumers' desires and go heavy into EV. But Trump helps Ford compete with carmakers in countries that heavily tariff and restrict American cars.
Ford is indeed helped — at consumers expense.
As I recall Jimmah had imposed tariffs on imported cars and you, Detroit gave us the mid seventies garbage.
Where was SCOTUS or anyone when we were being tarrifed to death?????
Where were they when this ‘Obamacare is a tax’ crap when they passed it initially??????
From AI:
“Yes, the individual mandate of Obamacare was initially a tax, a point the Supreme Court upheld in 2012 as a constitutional exercise of Congress’s taxing power. However, starting with the 2019 tax year, the federal penalty for not having health insurance was reduced to zero, so the individual mandate is no longer a tax.
The Supreme Court ruling: The Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate was a tax, not a penalty, because it was collected by the IRS through the normal tax system. “
Ford’s stock is up over 37%, year-to-date.
I’ve known that for 45 years
The question though is whether or not the increased profit from leveling the playing field with tariffs will produce job growth. The economy is key to the midterms.
100%
Ford is just about the worst behind-kissers. Went full woke-tarded with EV’s with Bidung was selected, even though they were losing money hand over fist. Quality absolutely tanked on everything. Now they’ve laid off tons of people and are thanking Trump for tariffs. Their leadership is nothing but a bunch of butt-kissing yes men.
Dershowitz said it best...Taxes are taxes and Tariffs are Tariffs.
Tariffs are policy...
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