News / White House confirms automotive tariffs – 'a disaster for the industry'

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Automotive logistics could be hard hit – with some modal shift to cut costs ? now the US has confirmed ‘heavy-handed’ 25% tariffs on imported vehicles. 

To be introduced on 2 April, such a tariff would have impacted eight million vehicles last year, and increased their price by some $7,600 per imported car, according to investment bank Jefferies. 

It noted: “In its latest salvo, the Trump administration adopted the most heavy-handed and simplest option of applying a 25% duty on all vehicles ...