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Tariffs Drive Honda to Move SUV Production from Canada to U.S.
- jlund-molfese 1y agohttps://archive.is/2PjRi https://archive.is/2PjRi
- slindsey 1y agoWith a minimum of googling, it seems that Honda already makes this vehicle in both the U.S. and Canada. They appear to be adding shifts to the U.S. to boost production 30% while lowering it elsewhere. So "Yay" I guess. It's one of the few situations where the tariffs can work short term. In most cases, shifting production from another country to the U.S. is a multi-year investment that tariffs won't significantly impact because they are changing too often to drive such long-term decisions.
- Pet_Ant 1y agoHopefully Canada slaps a tarriffs on companies that relocate production.
- bestouff 1y agoThis. That's so stupid, what once each and every country has tariffs ?
- EA-3167 1y agoThat... is broadly already the case, with a few exceptions in central Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...
- aaronbaugher 1y agoIt's funny how many people think the US is doing something new, and not just catching up with the rest of the world.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoThe western world's average tariff rate is generally around 1.5%. Increasing this by an order of magnitude is something new, and a lot more than "catching up".
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- kalleboo 1y agoThere's no "catching up", the US also already had tariffs inline with other developed nations.
- aredox 1y agoCatching up? They are regressing to the level of "the rest of the world". Do you think the USA isn't the best nation on Earth?
- bitshiftfaced 1y agoWhen people refer to "tariffs," they're talking about when a country puts a tax on imports coming from a particular country. Are you saying Canada should tax Honda specifically (and not, for example, other car manufacturers like Toyota)?
- Pet_Ant 1y agoYes, tax Honda specifically. I mean, it can't just tax Honda specifically as a "bill of attainder" issue, so it'd need to be phrased as something like "companies whose production has been deemed transferred due to foreign tarrifs".
- incomingpain 1y ago>The announcement came less than a month after Honda denied a report in the Japanese media that President Trump’s tariffs would force it to pull back in Canada. Honda in Japan made a legally true statement to Nikkei. If they lied, these executives would be facing criminal charges. We now know this was true. Honda Canada lied saying this was untrue. To the benefit of the Liberals during an election. Interfering in the election as an unregistered third party. Probably violating CSA laws as well; almost certainly OSC.
- cwillu 1y agohttps://www.grainger.com/product/6CHG3 https://www.grainger.com/product/6CHG3 I think you dropped this…
- readthenotes1 1y agoI read the original as a satirical duplication if Trump's complaints against various media companies as being election interference. Your link, is still apposite--well I will add the old Ccestnut that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not all out to get you
- cwillu 1y agoThere's absolutely unhinged comments that are indistinguishable from the op; satire indistinguishable from the thing being satirized isn't satire.
- jleyank 1y agoGiven that the libs ran against trump’s impact on Canada, they would have played up this change if they knew about it. Yet more stuff to be fought, etc. keeping it quite, to me, was trying to help the cons…
- ortusdux 1y agoI wonder how this move will affect the sticker price?
- stronglikedan 1y agoMy Acura (Honda) MDX has been made in South Carolina since forever, and that's a big contributor to why I chose it.