The Chief Executive Officer of the Automeker said on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s tariff dangers and enmity towards electronic vehicles is producing “a lot of cost and chaos” for Ford.
While Trump has talked about the priority of strengthening manufacturing in the United States, the administration thus has been a source of tremendous “policy uncertainty” with lack of tariff schemes and clarity so far. The tax credit will be taken back to the side, he will roll back, he said.
Shown at a financial conference, Jim Farley described Trump’s initial plan to implement 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, as a disaster for American companies, who work in the entire region, while European and European and Asians provide an unfair advantage to the manufacturers who also import the United States. ,
Trump suspended tariffs for 30 days after concessions from Mexico and Canada last week. But he has not been removed as a possibility by the Trump administration, which announced a plan to implement 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum yesterday.
Farley stated that Ford buys most of those two metals from American firms, but is the international source of suppliers of the company.
“So it will come through the price, and there may be a speculative part of the market where prices come out because the tariff is also rumored,” Farley said.
“President Trump has talked a lot about strengthening our American auto industry, brings more production here, more innovation,” Farley said, saying that these would be “signature achievements”.
But “What we are seeing till now is a lot of cost and a lot of chaos,” he said.
Farley spoke about the intentions of the Trump administration on the Biden administration’s inflation in inflation act, which included the tax incentives for EV procurement and the construction of EV factories.
On the first day of Trump, an executive order indicated the possible elimination of tax credit in favor of EVS.
Farley said that Ford had already “drowned capital” in major investments in Ohio, Michigan, Kentki and Tennessee.
“Many of those jobs will be at risk if the IRA is canceled or if large parts of it are canceled,” Farley said.
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