Trump’s auto tariff plan means he ‘kept his promise’ to union workers, leader says

American car colleagues who supported President Donald Trump in his campaign in 2024 believe that he was returning to the re -manufacturing dominance.

“Personally I had no doubt. The man kept his word. He did this during his first term, and he is doing it here in the second. We are very happy to do so,” Brian Banipker said on “The Evening” on Thursday.

“In fact, he supported all elections and stronger,” he added.

Trump announced on Wednesday a new tariff about car imports during a White House press conference, saying that he would impose a 25 % tariff on all imported cars, an increase of 2.5 % before. He pointed out that the customs duties of cars will be valid on April 2, when it is also expected to announce mutual tariff plans.

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Trump, who is seen as definitions as a means of achieving tax revenues to finance his tax discounts while stimulating local manufacturing activation, previously suggested that it could impose a 25 % “neighborhood in a neighborhood”.

Pannebecker has argued that the definitions are a much better result than what his opponent has been in the Trump campaign in the automotive industry.

“she [Kamala Harris] He said this means that he wanted to prohibit the internal combustion engine. This means, mainly, to get rid of the auto industry and hand it over to China … so far Sean Fine, the UAW socialist president, has been on board. So he was late in the game. But we are happy to see him supporting Donald Trump. “

The United Auto Labor Union (UAW) praised the tariff decision in Trump in a written statement on Wednesday, saying: “End the race to the bottom in the auto industry begins to fix our broken commercial deals, and the Trump administration has made history with today’s actions.”

It seems that the auto factories and workers who help their management seem to be optimistic about their ability to transform and adapt to political and technological development, according to the leader of the Union.

“If it is necessary, they can build a new factory in less than a year. The tools are now largely switched.” “They are changing to new models while flying. So a lot of technology allows them to do so very quickly, and they have the extra ability to do so.”

“When you hear people who love [Ford’s] “Good, as you know, we don’t want to do that, and it will be really costly,” says Jim Farley, and this is just excuses and misleading.

“But the truth remains,” Pannebecker continued, “If they will use robots in new technology and automation, we want to do this on this aspect of the border, not the south of the border in Mexico. So we will do any jobs they have. Detroit is still the city of car, and we want every automatic job, and every vehicle sold in the United States, we want to build it.”

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It was also reflected in how Trump maintained a personal promise, after he claimed that Pannebecker had provided information from one of the infrin Andxler’s violations in Stelantis, who opposed a plan to transfer production to Mexico after the end of the current UAW contract in 2027.

“One of the amounts of violations came to me and asked me to obtain this information to President Trump. It was very high [up] He said: “Stelantis vice president, in a rally on stage with President Trump, then told me the gathering,” Brian, I will not allow this to happen. “He kept his promise.”

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Eric Rafeel in Fox Business contributed to this report.