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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNobody seems to be talking about the impact of Trump's tariffs on GM closing plants.
It's not the only factor but every story I read about it has buried in it the impact of steel and other tariffs.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/official-gm-close-ontario-plant-054923778.html
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Nobody seems to be talking about the impact of Trump's tariffs on GM closing plants. (Original Post)
allgood33
Nov 2018
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People aren't buying them? Anyway, lost in all this GM grief is the news that Ford...
TreasonousBastard
Nov 2018
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dhol82
(9,420 posts)1. Also just heard that these plants mostly produce small cars
The market for them has gone down.
Not sure why.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,654 posts)2. Cuz coal-powered cars are the future. Coal is back!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. People aren't buying them? Anyway, lost in all this GM grief is the news that Ford...
announced several months ago out of the small car business completely.
Gothmog
(153,634 posts)4. trump's tariffs are costing the US jobs
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)5. Trump's republican tariffs led to the republican TrumpSlump
John Fante
(3,479 posts)6. $1 billion in losses, just from Gump's tariffs.
That's a huge chunk of change.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)7. The US Auto industry has
conceded the Passenger Car Market to the South Korean's. Yes there are other Foreign manufactures,but the Korean's are low balling every one much like Japan did in the Seventies and Eighties.