Posted on 09/09/2018 8:42:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Ford won’t be moving production of a hatchback wagon to the United States from China — despite President Donald Trump’s claim Sunday that his taxes on Chinese imports mean the Focus Active can be built in America.
Citing Trump’s new tariffs, Ford on Aug. 31 said it was dropping plans to ship the Focus Active from China to America.
Trump took to Twitter Sunday to declare victory and write: “This is just the beginning. This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will pay no tariffs!”
But in a statement Sunday, Ford said “it would not be profitable to build the Focus Active in the U.S.” given forecast yearly sales below 50,000. …
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Many lived like that in the USSR too. The only things that separated second world from third were ideology, industrialization (to a degree; all stolen from the first world) and possession of nuclear weapons thanks to traitors in the first world.
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