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Edited by Porsche 914: 5/27/2017 12:03:05 AM
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President Trump calls Germans 'very bad' and promises to stop car imports

[quote] At a NATO summit in Brussels with top EU leaders, president Trump scolded Germany, and vowed to put an end to the country’s hefty car exports to the U.S., multiple German and now English-language news outlets report. The president allegedly told the leaders: The Germans are bad, very bad... Look at the millions of cars they sell in the US. We will stop this. Though this quote has been translated from German, multiple German reporters from the outlet Der Spiegel have reported the quote translated into English, including Veit Medick: The Sueddeutsche Zeitung also reported in German a similar “bad, very bad” quote, and ZDF also said that Trump was displeased with Germany’s heavy automotive trade surplus to the U.S. The same has been quoted by Slate and Quartz, among others in the U.S. too. These comments are in keeping with some of the other rhetoric Trump has been spewing about foreign carmakers. On the campaign trail he regularly targeted companies like Toyota, threatening them into making cars in the U.S.—which many of them already do. In this case BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen all have substantial manufacturing bases in the U.S.; BMW alone makes all of its SUVs in South Carolina. Earlier this year, he criticized German automakers BMW, Daimler and VW for not building enough American-market automobiles stateside, with Reuters quoting the president as saying: If you want to build cars in the world, then I wish you all the best. You can build cars for the United States, but for every car that comes to the USA, you will pay 35 percent tax. According to MIT’s Observatory of Economic Complexity, a visualization tool for international trade data, Germany has a $252 billion positive trade balance, with the majority of goods being cars, which make up 12 percent of all exports. The top destination for German export goods, the OEC shows, is the U.S., representing 9.9 percent of all export value, or $122 billion. It’s worth noting that Donald Trump is clearly a fan of German cars, as the only video we’ve seen of him actually driving shows him behind the wheel of a Rolls Royce, which is built by German company BMW. This story is being updated [/quote] Well I guess If you're thinking of buying German better do it it soon. Other source http://jalopnik.com/donald-trump-calls-germans-very-bad-vows-to-stop-germa-1795557376
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  • You know that this only means that german cars will be pretty much forced to be built in america? That all. That doesnt block them from entering, just creates jobs and makes already upmarket cars, slightly more upmarket.

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