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Germany willing to cut tariffs on US cars, lifting automakers’ shares
Topic Started: Jul 6 2018, 11:59 AM (129 Views)
Hughmac

dcbl
Jul 6 2018, 06:16 PM
it's amazing what Trump has been able to accomplish is such a short period of time

we should have been doing this for decades
Is it Germany's fault that they make well-engineered cars whilst the US turns out gaz-guzzling tin boxes on wheels? It's the same with Japan, which makes more cars within the US than the US exports to Japan. If US manufactures could be bothered to make an export model with the steering wheel on the correct side for Japanese roads then you might start getting somewhere.

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Hughmac
H4T wrote: lobal] nuclear annihilation is preferable to the pre-Trump immigration/refugee policies.
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Hughmac
Jul 7 2018, 04:52 AM
dcbl
Jul 6 2018, 06:16 PM
it's amazing what Trump has been able to accomplish is such a short period of time

we should have been doing this for decades
Is it Germany's fault that they make well-engineered cars whilst the US turns out gaz-guzzling tin boxes on wheels? It's the same with Japan, which makes more cars within the US than the US exports to Japan. If US manufactures could be bothered to make an export model with the steering wheel on the correct side for Japanese roads then you might start getting somewhere.

Cheers
Hughmac
I owned a Mercedes....Its impressive engineering only made its maintenance and repairs extremely expensive......... :mad:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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Hughmac

Robert Stout
Jul 7 2018, 04:58 AM
Hughmac
Jul 7 2018, 04:52 AM
dcbl
Jul 6 2018, 06:16 PM
it's amazing what Trump has been able to accomplish is such a short period of time

we should have been doing this for decades
Is it Germany's fault that they make well-engineered cars whilst the US turns out gaz-guzzling tin boxes on wheels? It's the same with Japan, which makes more cars within the US than the US exports to Japan. If US manufactures could be bothered to make an export model with the steering wheel on the correct side for Japanese roads then you might start getting somewhere.

Cheers
Hughmac
I owned a Mercedes....Its impressive engineering only made its maintenance and repairs extremely expensive......... :mad:
Harley Davidson's are renowned for breaking down, which won't be a problem soon because the tariffs on Harley Davidson exports could probably sink the company or force it to close down production in the US (loss of jobs) and move its production overseas - thanks, Trump!

Here's just one of the many links available if you google, "Harley Davidson Engine Problems."

http://blog.jpcycles.com/i-love-harley-davidson-but-you-must-know-this/

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Hughmac
Edited by Hughmac, Jul 7 2018, 06:30 AM.
H4T wrote: lobal] nuclear annihilation is preferable to the pre-Trump immigration/refugee policies.
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Hughmac

"Trump held Harley up as an American icon. Now it’s an American icon that is moving jobs overseas."

In 2017 President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan held up Harley-Davidson as an American company that would flourish under the Republican Party’s policies on trade and taxes.

This isn’t what’s happened so far in 2018.

In January Harley announced plans to close its Kansas City plant. Days later it said it would spend nearly $700 million on stock buybacks that would benefit shareholders. And this week the company announced that because of European tariffs, a consequence of Trump’s trade war, it will shift overseas some production — and presumably jobs. The company is already opening up a new plant in Thailand.


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506424/trump-tariffs-harley-davidson-thailand
H4T wrote: lobal] nuclear annihilation is preferable to the pre-Trump immigration/refugee policies.
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