Ford tells Trump why it won't make China-built car in US

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President Donald Trump offered some business advice to Ford Motor on Sunday: because of the administration's high tariffs on car imports from China, Ford can start making its Focus Active in the United States.

Ford wasted little time responding to say that wasn't going to happen.

"It would not be profitable to build the Focus Active in the U.S. given an expected annual sales volume of fewer than 50,000 units," Ford said Sunday.

The statement came after Trump tweeted about an article from August 31, when Ford announced that it was canceling plans to make the Focus Active, a compact crossover, in China and ship them to the United States.

"This is just the beginning. This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will pay no tariffs!" Trump wrote, citing a Reuters article posted on CNBC.

Link to tweet

“Ford has abruptly killed a plan to sell a Chinese-made small vehicle in the U.S. because of the prospect of higher U.S. Tariffs.” CNBC. This is just the beginning. This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will pay no tariffs!

https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/09/news/companies/ford-trump-twitter-ford-active/index.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. And Ford is going to listen to a bankrupt old fool? I think not. nt

[jmowreader]

2. This is what happens when a landlord claims to be a "businessman"

[Codeine]

3. In fairness,

I shed no tears for the loss of a Chinese-import Ford.

[roamer65]

4. A lot of models will be killed by the car makers.

Especially if Agent Orange tariffs cars coming in from Canada.

They aren’t going to move production here. The car makers will simply kill the models and the unemployment numbers will grow accordingly.

What models do remain will be 20-25 percent higher in price.

[lame54]

5. It's not advice - it's bragging on...

What he believes is an inevitable result of his Jenius policies

Donald J. Trump
The J is for Jenius

[Takket]

6. yeah because retooling a plant for a different model is neither time consuming nor expensive

[TreasonousBastard]

7. It will NEVER be made in the US the US is only a tiny part of its market...

It's a "world car" and most of its market may actually be China, which is a much larger market than the US-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/tychodefeijter/2016/05/16/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-chinese-car-market/#567032943025

So why would the tangerine wanker, whose business experience has primarily been sending them into bankruptcy or renting his name out, be expected to know anything about the auto business?

So, if they continue building it, they will build it in China, sell a bunch of them around the world, and have them handy to sell here when Trump is but a dimly remembered nightmare.

[Voltaire2]

8. He is a fucking idiot.

His trade war is a leading contender for how the current boom will collapse.