There are major concerns about the potentially ‘catastrophic’ impact US policy will have on vehicle makers
Emerging into the springtime sun from gate 17 at Volkswagen’s main factory in Wolfsburg at the end of his shift on Thursday afternoon, Carsten, 63, pulled heavily on a cigarette and shook his head when asked about Donald Trump’s US tariff policies.
“It’s just another nail in the coffin for the German car industry,” the assembly line worker said. He cited managers’ plans to slash jobs and close factories earlier this year, and a decade before that the ‘dieselgate’ scandal, costly both financially and reputationally, after Germany’s largest carmaker was found to have falsified CO2 emissions tests.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/04/germany-car-industry-faces-up-to-trump-tariffs
Author : Kate Connolly Wolfsburg and Berlin
Publish date : 2025-04-04 13:02:00
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