Trump: Next week I will be increasing tariffs charged to the European Union for cars and trucks; Tariff will be increased to 25%

There is no untapped market or gap to capture unless each house is supposed to own 3-4 giant cars? - murikan cars although tend to be of high-quality and low maintenance, have the worst fuel efficiency of any car maker in the world which automatically closes markets in none oil producing countries.

The only murikan cars you see in Europe is jeep wranglers in resort towns due to aesthetics, Africa have low spending power and generally oil import dependent which favors Asian or European cars - south east Asia favor European or Asian car-makers due to size and high fuel efficiency - leaving only west asia, due to cheap accessible petrol, but west asia is filled with murikan cars - however not new cars, they buy up crashed or flooded cars in auctions and ship them over to be fixed locally - there are rules and regulations: only modern cars can be imported (max 5 years old) the only new drive ready cars getting imported to west asia is Chinese cars due to low entry price and gas efficiency.

What type of car can 20k get you? here we can get a brand new BYD hybrid that can drive 500km in one tank/charge, it charges itself when driving above certain speed as well!

The only logic this strategy produces is impoverishing Europe to force its industry to re-locate and start production in murika - by than its too late as the Chinese auto-makers will be dominant anyway!

Seems like just empty rhetoric to distract from short-comings

Who says its gonna be cheap?
Same jacked up price with a longer payment plan.
Those car company are just gonna add the tariff to the buyers.
Even the parts used, its being outsourced from other countries with high tariff so in the end,
Buyers are going to pay more

fuck the little man as if he have not been fucked enough - also wall-street sharks is buying up the tariff credits on discount, given their power, its strategic necessity that companies involve such power-brokers to take piece of the pie!