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Trump, German auto execs meet
    2018-12-06  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

U.S. President Donald Trump and executives from Germany’s biggest automakers discussed the companies’ investments in the United States on Tuesday as trade tensions with the Europeans and Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on foreign cars sold in the United States loomed overhead.

Trump “shared his vision of all automakers producing in the United States and creating a more friendly business environment,” the White House said in a statement. The statement did not say whether Trump raised tariffs with executives from BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen.

Trump, however, has threatened to slap tariffs on auto imports from Europe and other countries, citing U.S. trade deficits with those nations. Trump is relying on tariffs, and the threat of imposing them, to force other countries to buy more goods from America.

Automakers said the talks were productive. They included individual conversations with some of the president’s top economic advisers.

“From our perspective, the U.S. position is understandable,” VW said in a statement. “They want more investment in the United States. Now it is up to the governments and the European Union to find a solution that benefits all parties. As Volkswagen Group, we are committed to encouraging stable trade relations between the United States, Germany and the whole European Union.”

Daimler said the discussions were “conducted in a businesslike atmosphere and related to the respective firms and their involvement in the United States. The meeting with the president was very good and very open.”

BMW said it used the opportunity “to explain in detail the extent of its footprint in the United States” and that the “mandate to talk about international trade politics rests solely with the relevant political institutions,” the company said in a statement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week dismissed suggestions that the automakers could conduct trade policy, saying trade negotiations are the responsibility of the European Union.

BMW also described itself as a committed “local player” for a quarter century with a plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, that employs nearly 10,000 people. The company said it will invest US$600 million in manufacturing through 2021, creating an additional 1,000 jobs in Spartanburg.

Trump has threatened to tax imported cars, trucks and auto parts, potentially targeting imports that last year totaled US$335 billion, and the European Union had warned that it would retaliate with tariffs on products worth US$20 billion if Trump put duties on cars and auto parts from Europe. (SD-Agencies)

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