It's so high that in the 1980s the Japanese would ship their mini pickup trucks with the beds not fully attached, so that 'final assembly' was in the U.S. and they paid the lower passenger car tax.
Today, those mini panel trucks such as the Ford Transit Connect that you see trades using, are brought into the country with rear seats so they pay the passenger car import tariff, then the seats are removed here and shredded for recycling.
Games like these are played all the time.
> Look up the U.S. tariff on imported trucks. It’s 25%. <
Right. But’s that would actually be a distraction politically (one issue at a time). As I noted in post #5, the current dust-up between the US and the EU is over cars. Trump can win over a lot of folks by going on TV, and pointing out the huge tariff difference on cars.
And if Merkel is upset about US tariffs on imported EU trucks, she can go on German TV and talk about it.