Last week it was Honda. This week it’s Mercedez-Benz
From Ben Shimkus’s article for London’s Daily Mail, via msn.com:
Mercedes-Benz will shift production of one of its vehicles to Tuscaloosa, Alabama by 2027.
The German luxury carmaker’s move is the latest response from an industry caught in the expensive crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs.
The decision marks a potential win for Trump’s protectionist trade agenda, which aims to boost US manufacturing by slapping steep tariffs on foreign-made goods.
But there are many complicating factors.
The company didn’t say which model would move to America. Instead, it said the production of a ‘core segment vehicle’ will move stateside.
Many experts predict the move will impact the production of the GLC, the company’s best-selling car in the US. The compact SUV is built in Bremen, Germany.
‘As a company with global activities and more than 30 plants worldwide, Mercedes-Benz generally pursues a local-for-local strategy,’ the company told DailyMail.com.
It’s getting harder and harder to remember that claim by Democrats, along with their media acolytes, assuring us the tariffs would destroy our economy…
…and, it would seem evident, decisions like Mercedez-Benz’s, and the others which preceded it, will make it even harder to find Democrats still willing to stake their credibility on that claim.
For the good of the country, we should all – Democrats, Republicans, everybody – hope that it turns out to be 100% incorrect.
