{"id":167659,"date":"2017-01-16T02:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=167659"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:57:41","slug":"flash-news-trump-threatens-bmw-with-border-tax-on-cars-built-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2017\/01\/16\/flash-news-trump-threatens-bmw-with-border-tax-on-cars-built-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash News! Trump threatens BMW with border tax on cars built in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_167660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167660\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BMW.jpe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-167660 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BMW.jpe\" width=\"728\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view shows the logo of BMW on a car in Moscow, Russia, July 6, 2016. REUTERS\/Maxim Zmeyev<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters President-elect Donald Trump has warned the United States will impose a border tax of 35 percent on cars that German carmaker BMW plans to build at a new plant in Mexico and export to the U.S. market.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was speaking in an interview with German newspaper Bild, which on Sunday released excerpts of his comments translated into German.<\/p>\n<p>A BMW spokeswoman said a BMW Group plant in San Luis Potosi would build the BMW 3 Series starting from 2019, with the output intended for the world market. The plant in Mexico would be an addition to existing 3 Series production facilities in Germany and China.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said BMW should build its new car factory in the United States because this would be &#8220;much better&#8221; for the company.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say Germany was a great car producer, borne out by Mercedes Benz cars being a frequent sight in New York, but there was no reciprocity.<\/p>\n<p>Germans were not buying Chevrolets at the same rate, he said, making the business relationship an unfair one-way street.\u00a0He said he was an advocate of free trade, but not at any cost.<\/p>\n<p>The BMW spokeswoman said the company was &#8220;very much at home in the U.S.,&#8221; employing directly and indirectly nearly 70,000 people in the country.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Michael Nienaber and Edward Taylor; writing by Vera Eckert; editing by Andrew Roche)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to Reuters President-elect Donald Trump has warned the United States will impose a border tax of 35 percent on cars that German carmaker BMW plans to build at a new plant in Mexico and export to the U.S. market. Trump was speaking in an interview with German newspaper Bild, which on Sunday released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4091,"featured_media":783323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5509,10093,733],"class_list":["post-167659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-bmw","tag-donald-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}