German FAZ: What threatens the auto industry with punitive tariffs against Mexico008061

The closer the election date in the USA gets, the more drastic the threats from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump become: first he threatened a hundred, then 200 percent punitive tariff on vehicles produced in Mexico for the US market. The target group of his statements are voters in the so-called Rust Belt, the oldest and largest industrial region in the USA: “I will not let them build a factory right across the border and sell millions of cars in America and destroy even more of Detroit,” said Trump a few days ago. The background is the decline of the former US car metropolis since the 1980s.
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