Washington:
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was planning to reveal rates on imported cars around 2 April, which contributed to a cascade of taxes that he has threatened since he took office.
Trump's statement did not indicate whether the rates would apply to all car imports.
Since his inauguration on January 20, Trump has focused on both allies and opponents with threats of new tasks.
He has referred to rates as a way to raise income, remedy trade balances and to print countries to act on American care.
Experts have warned that it is often Americans who pay the rates for the entry of the US – not the foreign exporter.
Asked when he could reveal car rates, Trump said: “Maybe around 2 April”
He did not give any further details on Friday.
About 50 percent of the cars sold in the United States are made in the country. Under the entry, about half comes from Mexico and Canada and the other half from other large automatic production countries.
The latter group is led by Japan, South Korea and Germany, with Great Britain, Italy and Sweden a source of a smaller volume of import.
In recent days, Ford CEO Jim Farley has shot a proposed Trump rate of 25 percent on Mexico and Canada, noticed that it is approaching American companies that have integrated their supply chains in North America, including the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiated in the first Trump administration.
On 3 February the White House suspended the rates for 30 days after movements from Canada and Mexico on border security and fentanyl policy.
Lensing that focus on the automatic sector would come after the president recently set plans for rates for all steel and aluminum imports from 12 March.
He has previously promised rates for semiconductors, steel, oil and gas.
On Thursday, Trump launched on Thursday, in a relocation of trade conflicts, plans for “mutual rates” that all US trading partners could hit per country.
The American Automotive Policy Council, which represents Detroit Automakers General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, has called for Trump to drop Trump on Mexico and Canada.
“We support the efforts of President Trump to consider the entire global trade situation, including both rate and non-tariff barriers,” said AAPC president Matt Blunt on Thursday in response to the announcement about mutual rates.
“In the meantime, Ford, GM and Stellantis continue to believe that vehicles and car components that meet the USMCA requirements should not be subject to extra rates.”
The AAPC did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Friday.
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