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Funny, Gerans have to pay $40K for a basic Mustang and everybody was fine that but let the US talk tariffs and the whole world is coming to a standstill.
Funny, Gerans have to pay $40K for a basic Mustang and everybody was fine that but let the US talk tariffs and the whole world is coming to a standstill.
AFAIK, Ford does not sell the Mustang in Germany. You're thus talking about individually-paid import duty on a foreign-purchased item, which is next to nothing to do with tariffs on goods at the commercial import level.
Prices for a four-cylinder turbocharged model there start at about €38,000, or roughly $43,000. Prices for that model in the U.S. start at less than $26,000.
So it's OK for every other country to charge exhorbitant tariffs on our goods, but we can't reciprocate, and try to save our industry here?
If we do it it's mayhem, if they do it nobody even knows. The question is why it took this long for somebody to bring it up? It makes all the sense for Germany to drop their tariff to zero on a handful of Mustangs sold there then ask for Trump to drop his tariffs on hundreds of thousands of German cars.
So it's OK for every other country to charge exhorbitant tariffs on our goods, but we can't reciprocate, and try to save our industry here?
That and people screaming how tariffs are bad and the US/Trump is stupid, yet those countries have zero issue reciprocating the tariffs. If they were so detrimental, those countries would not reciprocate. But fact is it is a strategy that the US started, and other countries are now following.
About what? That a vehicle manufactured in the US and sold in another country, with shipping and import costs and VAT, is more expensive in Munich than Milwaukee?
And, of course, there's zero motivation for a Ford seller in Germany to charge a premium price for a specialty import.
Establish that there's a tariff involved and we'll continue.
Establish that there's a tariff involved and we'll continue.[/QUOTE]
"Import duty" is tariff by another name. And don't tell me it costs $20,000 to ship a Mustang to Germany. When Germans can buy a Mustang for 5% more than we can here, you can complain about Trump's tariff. The fact that before Trump came along this was a non issue tells you how everybody is in on it.
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