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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.Trump administration mulls stiffer rules for imported cars
By David Shepardson and Steve Holland WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ThePBot
Really? The same Trump-era EPA that removed environmental restrictions for the oil and gas industry?
Laguna
Typical example of Trump's stubby right-hand fingers not knowing what the stubby-left hand fingers are doing. He plans to announce a replacement for the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which dictate fuel efficiency and therefore emissions. This will set him up with another major legal confrontation with California, which has pledged to vigorously defend the existing rules that allow it a waiver requiring CAFE standards far exceeding those Federal.
Trump certainly has not helped his case here.
simon g
most cars sold in the US are manufactured there even German and Japanese brands. Trump really is a moron. Who said that?
JeffLee
Yes, and did you read the part of the article stating, "Virtually all of those are non-union plants, many of them in southern states." If US makers can recapture more of their former market share, US workers as a whole will be better off.
Globalization: a race to the bottom
borscht
They’re non-union plants because the OrangeHead’s friends want them to be non-union. His friends make more money with non-union. If the Orange-One really wants to help American Workers (he doesn’t), he’d Force all non-union auto plants to be union. He won’t because he and his friends would lose money.
Ganbare Japan!
All US cars and truck are gas-guzzling low tech rust-bucket. Imported Honda, Toyota, Nissan are hi-tech and eco.
I think Trump and Michael Pence are strong leaders,I like them,but they have not thought this thru. Meeting with PM Abe in Mer-a-lego will in 2 weeks will smooth this over.
ClippetyClop
That must be why they had to recall a couple of million of them in the last few years due to a range of life-threatening shoddy defects.
This idea that all American cars are cast-iron, poorly made gas-guzzling carbuncles is outdated nonsense. Just look at the eco cars that Tesla, Ford & Chevrolet are making for a start. I'm no great fan of American cars myself, but they are catching up to their Japanese & European rivals quickly.
wtfjapan
That must be why they had to recall a couple of million of them in the last few years due to a range of life-threatening shoddy defects. GM and Ford have also had similar recalls, GM even has ignition problems that have killed people. and then Tesla has had similar problems that have killed people also.
toshiko
UAW do not want car makers automate factories. Machines do not at membership due.
How much Japanese car makers in USA pay fr unskilled laborers? Toyota in Ky. Nissan in Tenn. $45 an hour. They say they can't pay like other type Japaneese electronic device makers.
toshiko
Trump think. and praise Toyta is American. Industry.
simon g
Has nothing to do with this topic. FYI Foreign car plants (German and Japanese) are non unionized. American: GM Ford et.al. are UWA shops.
mmwkdw
Start with the corrupt German Manufacturers - VW/Porche.... can't trust them/won't trust them anymore.
Netgrump
True but GM and Ford use the technology engineered at their European plants.
A 'technology transfer' so to say but a legitimate one.
In 10 years Tesla will be history as battery powered cars will not be the technology of the future. Real quality cars in the US however are produced by..... :)
JeffLee
@borscht
That's reallty funny. They were non-union plants from the day they were set up, in the late 70s to early 80s....on the insistance of the Japanese (who would never tolerate the same situation back home).
Netgrump
@ Reckless
Everything is relative :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBDyeWofcLY