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Jaguar Land Rover has suspended all shipments of cars to the US for the Moon, because the disruption of supply chains of global cars is rapidly spreading in response to the repressive tariffs of US President Donald Trump on vehicle imports.
The British car manufacturer has stopped consignments because it is based on a longer -term response to 25 % of the vehicle import tariffs. The obligation applies to all cars collected outside the US with partial exceptions to Mexico and Canada.
“The US is an important market for JLR luxury brands. When we are working on solving new business conditions with our business partners, we take our short -term steps, including the shipment break in April,” he said in a statement.
Producer Range Rover and defender Land Rover, owned by Indian Tata Motors, is highly exposed to tariffs because it generates almost a quarter of its sales in the US, but has no local production capacity in the US.
People said that JLR had previously considered building a plant in the US, but instead decided to build another plant in Slovakia before the start of the first Presidency of Trump.
The movement of the British automobile society emphasizes the chaos that Trump's tariffs will relax at the global automotive industry that created complex supplier chains supported by free trade.
It follows the decision of the Chrysler and Jeep Maker Stellantis On Friday, 900 employees in the US after a temporary production break in Mexico and Canada.
The CEO of the Swedish car manufacturer Volvo said on Thursday that it is considering adding a production of another model of the car to the American plant in South Carolina, which has a capacity of 150,000 cars per year.
The group, owned by China Geely, recently brought back its former boss Håkan Samuelseson to go through geopolitical challenges caused by the worldwide Customs War.
Japanese Nissan is also trying to rework their supply chains in response to tariffs.
On Friday, the Japanese group said he would not receive any new US orders of two models from his Infiniti luxury assortment in Mexico. He also stated that he was planning to maintain two shifts on the production line on his plant in Tennessee, because he said earlier that he would go down for one shift to save costs.
Nissan has developed plans to move some rogue SUV from his home plant in Kyushho to Smyrn, according to a person who is familiar with Nissan's plans. Nissan refused to comment.
The attempt to transform the car supply chains comes after the stock markets have suffered and Brutal decline This week with S&P 500 loses 10 percent in two days.
The impact of tariffs on the automotive industry could be huge – and became even more serious if 25 % of the tariffs on a wide range of imported parts were valid for 3 May and joined the fee on finished cars stored on Thursday.
Wedbush analysts estimate that tariffs could reduce new car purchases by up to 20 percent and raise the prices of a typical US consumer by $ 5,000 to $ 10,000.
Nissan moving production from Japan will be politically sensitive to the assembly strains perceived by thousands of small and medium car suppliers whose profit margins have already been exerted under pressure rising wages.
Likewise, the JLR pause will bring concern about the future health of the British automotive industry, where about one of the six cars supplied goes to the US.
Toyota, the largest car manufacturer in the world, has indicated suppliers that it intends to reduce production costs in response to tariffs in an effort to avoid rising consumers' prices.
The Japanese automobile manufacturer was selected in its speech and revealed “mutual” tariffs. He said Toyota sells 1 million foreign cars every year in the US. Japan was the “worst violator” and “in many cases a friend is worse than the enemy in terms of trade,” the US President said.
Many Japanese car manufacturers already have factories in the US and can be careful after building huge investment packages, analysts say, due to concerns about high costs and availability of work in the US.
